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.
When a helicopter's rotor stops in mid-flight, it often is a prelude to disaster. But an experimental aircraft being developed jointly by Boeing and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is scheduled to do exactly that next year. The Dragonfly will be a unique hybrid aircraft - a helicopter capable of stopping its blades in midair to allow fixed-wing flight.
While Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld examines an alternative to the traditional two major-theater-war (MTW) scenario as the guiding principle for U.S. defense strategy (DAILY, Jun. 22), defense analysts are left pondering what that alternative could and should be. Michelle Flournoy, senior advisor for International Security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, was reluctant to speculate on exactly what Rumsfeld might have in mind, although she said "it's clear that they're going to keep some sort of multi-theater capability.
Senate Armed Services Committee ranking Republican John Warner (Va.) will try to add as much as $5 billion to the Bush Administration's fiscal 2002 defense budget request, a spokesman said June 25. The Administration has proposed boosting the Defense Department's budget by almost $33 billion, to $329 billion. "He would like to see as much as $5 billion more and is going to work with the White House on that," Warner's spokesman said.
