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.
If congressionally mandated budget cuts continue as planned for the course of the decade, the U.S. Air Force will have to cut nearly half of its planned modernization programs, the Air Force chief of staff told reporters Nov. 13. Gen. Mark Welsh has outlined his top priorities for modernization: the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Long Range Strike Bomber and the KC-46 tanker and its successor. He has also identified a number of other programs that are high priorities, including Joint STARS and the T-38 trainer replacement.
SPEED LIMITS: U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh is disavowing any knowledge of Lockheed Martin’s hypersonic concept, the SR-72, recently revealed by Aviation Week (Aerospace DAILY, Nov. 4). “I don’t know anything about the SR-72,” Welsh said about the potential Mach 6 intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, and strike platform. “I saw an article about it.
OSPREYS IN ACTION: In response to Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, the Pentagon is focusing its relief efforts on airborne and maritime search and rescue, medium-heavy helicopter lift support and logistics. The response effort includes requests for the use of Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey tiltrotors and KC-130 cargo aircraft. The USS George Washington is bringing Carrier Air Wing Five to assist with recovery efforts following the disaster, which affected more than 4 million people. The wing brings with it 80 aircraft, including the MH-60 Seahawk.
