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.
The U.S. Army's Urban Reconnaissance advanced concept technology demonstration (ACTD) is combining airborne and ground-based 3-D laser scanning to add a new dimension to situational awareness in urban terrain, according to a scientist working on the program.
In its latest report on the Army's RAH-66 Comanche reconnaissance/attack helicopter program, the Defense Department's Inspector General (IG) gives the program a clean audit, while emphasizing that program managers must remain mindful of possible technical issues as production ramps up.
NASA's In-Space Propulsion (ISP) program, which announced a new round of contracts last week, is helping new propulsion technologies break out of the laboratory and into actual missions, according to Paul Wercinski, ISP program executive in NASA's Office of Space Science. Scientists often are reluctant to put high-risk in-space propulsion technologies into their mission proposals. However, those technologies will languish without a clearly defined mission need, a situation described by one NASA propulsion official as a "Catch 22" (DAILY, Nov. 19, 2001).
