Based in Washington, Jen managed Aviation Week’s worldwide defense, space and security coverage from 2013 to January 2024.
Prior to taking on the Executive Editor role, Jen was Aviation Week's Congressional Editor. Jen came to Aviation Week in March 2011 from Politico, where she covered the intersection of defense and politics. She also worked as a reporter and editor for Defense Daily, Inside the Army, The Other Paper and The Columbus Dispatch.
Jen received a Master’s degree in journalism as a Kiplinger Fellow at the Ohio State University. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in history and journalism from the University of Michigan.
The Senate aviation subcommittee let the commercial sector air its desires last week about congressional action. For the most part, commercial representatives agree about what they want: maintain higher, earlier funding levels for the FAA's NextGen ATC modernization effort and keep pressure on the agency to provide results to industry. They also want Congress, the White House and even the American public to stop eyeing commercial aviation as an automated teller machine, or “piggybank,” and treat it more like a national asset.
The U.S. Navy’s decision to stop buying MH-60 helicopters after fiscal 2015 – a year before it had planned – would breach a current multiyear contract agreement with Sikorsky.
Alongside the spending blueprint for fiscal 2015-19 coming out this week, the Obama administration is expected to publish its latest Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). It will lay out a painful course change for a nation accustomed to having a military sized to go anywhere and do anything, simultaneously in different places.
