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.
"Waterproof everything" is the request from soldiers to the Army's Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN), according to ISN Director Net Thomas. A collaboration between the Army and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the ISN was founded in 2002 to pursue innovations in protective nanotechnology for soldiers (DAILY, April 4).
NASA's latest projection for the total cost of returning the space shuttle to flight some time next year is running at $600-700 million, according to Administrator Sean O'Keefe. The estimates are contained in NASA's latest return-to-flight implementation plan, which should be released April 9, O'Keefe says. NASA updates the plan roughly each month (DAILY, Nov. 25, 2003).
U.S. Air Force officials hope to receive approval to begin working on the Miniature Air-Launched Decoy program's jammer version (MALD-J) in fiscal year 2006, according to Program Manager Ann Harbaugh.
