Jeff has been involved in aerospace journalism since the mid 1990s. Prior to joining Aviation Week, Jeff served as managing editor of Launchspace magazine and the International Space Industry Report. He has been the editor and chief of Aviation Week's Aerospace Daily & Defense Report since 2007 and has been a regular contributor to Aviation Week magazine. He received his B.A. from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
Despite the Stryker vehicle's requirement that it be transportable within a C-130 cargo aircraft, so far Stryker brigades in Iraq have not used the aircraft for intra-theater movement, according to Col. Peter Fuller, the Army's Stryker project manager. "I'm not saying it's always faster [than a C-130], but they find that it's very fast because it's a wheeled vehicle," Fuller said during the Institute for Defense and Government Advancement's Light Armored Vehicles conference in Washington Dec. 2.
President Bush's vision for space exploration is "winning" on Capitol Hill, but is likely to progressively eat into NASA's space science budget as the years pass, according to Bob Palmer, Democratic staff director for the House Science Committee.
NASA and Northrop Grumman will spend the next few weeks refining the details of their codesigned Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) spacecraft, before turning their attention early next year to devising firm cost estimates for the ambitious mission in anticipation of its first major program review.
