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.
RESTON, Va. - Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) hopes to create a "pot of money" in the Defense Department's budget that would help defense manufacturers find alternatives to outsourcing work overseas. The money would help "create ways to have small businesses ... come in and come up with alternatives to the outsourcing that's occurring in many of our major manufacturers," Weldon said during a speech at the Navy Opportunity Forum here May 4.
At a Senate subcommittee hearing May 5, Chairman Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) repeatedly questioned NASA about options for retiring the space shuttle early and finishing the space station by other means, saying he is "not convinced" that the agency has given enough thought to other possibilities. The shuttle is expected to return to flight in March or April of next year. NASA's plan is to retire the shuttle fleet after it completes assembly of the International Space Station (ISS) at roughly the end of the decade.
RESTON, Va. - Under a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the U.S. Navy, Foster-Miller, Inc. of Waltham, Mass., is developing a small robot that would inspect the propeller shafts of 688-class submarines without requiring the shafts to be removed.
