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.
NASA's fiscal year 2005 budget request lays out the agency's spiral development plan for the proposed Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), which would be produced in three production blocks with accompanying demonstration flights starting in 2008.
The U.S. Air Force plans to brief House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) on its future plans for long-range strike, according to a senior Air Force budget official speaking at the Pentagon Jan. 30. A major topic of the briefing will be the future of the B-1 bomber fleet. The Air Force had planned to cut roughly a third of its B-1 fleet and use the savings to modernize the remaining aircraft, although it repeatedly has clashed with Congress over the plan.
Two contractor teams, led by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, are turning in proposals Feb. 17 for the final downselect for the Navy's Mobile User Objective System (MUOS). MUOS is the Department of Defense's next-generation, advanced narrow band communications satellite constellation. The system will "increase support to 'communications on the move' to disadvantaged platforms in stressed environments [such as Navy SEALS and other special forces]," the Navy said in its fiscal 2005 budget briefing.
