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.
International Launch Services (ILS) expects the Air Force to assign a second round of Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) missions later this year, according to company president Mark Albrecht. "We're anticipating sometime in 2003 that the Air Force will go through another round," Albrecht told The DAILY March 19. "We're not exactly sure when that will be. We're not exactly sure how big that will be."
During a House Armed Services subcommittee hearing March 12, chairman Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) said he will begin an "all-out push" to get the State Department to take some older helicopters off the munitions list to allow their sale in China and other markets. "I'm going to make an all-out push, and I'll put the [State Department] on notice ... that this is denying U.S. workers jobs, denying us market share," Weldon said during a hearing of the tactical air and land forces subcommittee devoted to the U.S. rotorcraft industrial base.
The U.S. Air Force is studying what it will take to accelerate the GPS III satellite constellation from its currently scheduled 2012 first launch, according to Air Force Undersecretary for Space Peter Teets. The study follows a recent memo from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to senior Defense Department officials, in which he suggested it might be appropriate to accelerate GPS III rather than delay it, as the Air Force had planned to (DAILY, Feb. 27).
