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.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The teams led by Lockheed Martin and Boeing-Northrop Grumman that are competing to build the Joint Common Missile (JCM) are investing their own money on advance risk reduction work as they await a contractor downselect in late April, according to company officials. The JCM is to replace the Hellfire and Maverick missile and fly on multiple aircraft, including the AH-64 Apache and AH-1Z Super Cobra helicopters as well as the Navy and Marine Corps' F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. A team led by Raytheon also is competing to build the JCM.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Lockheed Martin's Line-of-Sight Anti-Tank (LOSAT) missile system will finish developmental testing at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., next week, to be followed by five weeks of Army testing and a low-rate initial production (LRIP) decision in June, according to a company official.
Boeing is predicting a $200 billion market for network-centric warfare (NCW) systems from 2003 through 2013, according to Roger Roberts, senior vice president at Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems. The company arrived at that estimate by tallying DOD contract awards from the past few years as well as expected awards in programs such as the Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS), the Air Force's Transformational Communications MILSATCOM (TCM) effort, and the Global Information Grid Bandwidth Expansion (GIG-BE), among others.
