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 Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has awarded the Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. the first two contracts to begin work on its new Missile Defense National Team (MDNT), the agency announced last week.
Department of Defense's slice of the global research pie is dwindling, according to Ronald Sega, a former shuttle astronaut and DOD's director of defense research and engineering. "In 1965, roughly one quarter of the world's research, separated from research and development, was being done in U.S. DOD," Sega said, speaking at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' 2002 Defense Excellence conference in Washington Feb. 20. "Today, it represents less than about 5 percent of the world's total research."
If the American public isn't educated on military transformation, it won't believe it's getting its tax dollar's worth, according to Edward C. "Pete" Aldridge, under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics (AT&L). "I see a need to renew efforts to educate the public on just what transformation is," Aldridge said during closing remarks at the 2002 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' Defense Excellence conference in Washington Feb. 20.
