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.
Unmanned-aircraft makers and their big-league lobby group, the Aerospace Industries Association, are forecasting a ramped-up public relations campaign to demystify UAVs and warn against allowing them to suffer from export restrictions akin to those weathered by the U.S. commercial satellite industry over the last decade and a half (see page 46).
A divided Congress has generated what is likely to be a contentious conference to iron out differences between the Democratic and Republican versions of the NASA reauthorization bill. In another party-line vote, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee adopted its version of the three-year, $18-billion-plus annual NASA spending plan that was shot down in the Republican-controlled House Science, Space and Technology panel last month (AW&ST July 22, p. 21).
Lawmakers drifted away from Washington for their summer vacations, leaving the fate of the FAA's NextGen and numerous other aerospace programs up in the air.
