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.
Export control, and updating the nation's air traffic control (ATC) system, will head the list of discussion topics at the next meeting of the 12-member Commission on the Future of the United States Aerospace Industry, according to its chairman, former U.S. Rep. Robert Walker.
The goal of the Air Force and NASA combining forces to field an operational reusable launch vehicle (RLV) system by 2006 is "too ambitious," according to Brett Alexander of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In October, then-NASA Administrator Dan Goldin commissioned a 120-day study, scheduled for completion this month, to determine the feasibility of such a joint project (DAILY, Jan. 25).
The President's fiscal year 2003 budget request for NASA, released Feb. 4, cuts the budget for human spaceflight from $6.83 billion in fiscal year 2002 to $6.13 billion, while boosting funds for science, aeronautics, and technology research to $8.84 billion from the previous year's $8.05 billion.
