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 is leading a group of government agencies, private sector groups, and universities in a study exploring the potential negative effects of ultra-wideband (UWB) communications on low-power services such as the Global Positioning System (GPS). Developed by Time Domain Corp. of Huntsville, Ala., UWB spreads transmissions across the entire frequency band, sending very low-power radio signals in very short pulses that the company says are dismissed by other systems as noise.
In a memo sent earlier this week, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld questioned the Air Force's decision to delay the GPS III program, according to Owen Wormser, principal director for spectrum, space, sensors, and command, control, and communications (C3) at the Pentagon.
FALLS CHURCH, Va. - The rift with France and Germany over a possible war in Iraq is provoking some Capitol Hill lawmakers to rethink their position on America's future military presence in Europe, according to Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.). "I'm very upset, and so is the Congress," Weldon said during a keynote speech at the National Defense Industrial Association's (NDIA) Space Policy and Architecture symposium in Falls Church, Va., Feb. 26. "We have a major situation developing on Capitol Hill that I have not seen in 19 years."
