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.
BALTIMORE, Md. - A group of stakeholders in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) industry voted to begin the process of developing consensus standards for UAV systems during a meeting here July 15. ASTM International ran the meeting and also will lead the effort. In existence for more than a century, ASTM specializes in helping industries develop and write consensus technical standards. Supporters hope that the development of UAV standards will lead to regulation and certification of UAVs for flights within the national airspace (DAILY, July 8).
PATUXENT RIVER, Md. - The Department of Defense plans to deploy some of its unmanned aerial vehicles with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to help train border patrol and transportation security personnel on UAV operations. The deployment, set to take place within the next few months somewhere along America's southern border, comes at the request of Gordon England, deputy secretary for homeland security at DHS and former secretary of the Navy.
The final foam strike test carried out by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) is allowing investigators to fill in the missing pieces to the puzzle of what happened to Columbia, according to board member G. Scott Hubbard. "We are able now to explain a lot of the data that before we had only been able to speculate about," Hubbard said at a press conference in Washington July 11. "This single test ... is really allowing us to do a connect-the-dots ... and draw some lines between various pieces of evidence."
