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.
After learning the value of commercial remote sensing imagery during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) was able to make "key use" of such imagery during the war in Iraq, according to NIMA Executive Director Roberta Lenczowski.
NASA has chosen William Parsons, director of Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, to succeed Ron Dittemore as manager of the space shuttle program at Johnson Space Center in Houston later this year. During a press conference in Washington May 9, Mike Kostelnik, deputy associate administrator for the space station and shuttle, said NASA offered Parsons the position after an extensive search for candidates inside and outside the agency.
In a House subcommittee hearing May 8, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) called on NASA to end manned space shuttle flights and suggested the agency study the option of using the orbiters as unmanned cargo vehicles for supplying the International Space Station (ISS). "I don't want to put the orbiter back up with men and women on it," Barton said during the hearing of the House Science Committee's space and aeronautics subcommittee. "I just don't think it's safe and I don't think you can make it safe."
