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.
Despite releasing a fiscal 2014 budget that does not address sequestration, the Pentagon is still feeling the effects of an $85 billion across-the-board cut taking place in fiscal 2013. The reduction to military spending from sequestration in fiscal 2013 is $41 billion, which cuts from every program line. Coupled with higher wartime operations costs, the Pentagon is facing up to a $25 billion shortfall in its operations accounts, Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale told reporters April 10.
Partisan divides may be blocking Washington from an agreement on how to reduce the deficit, but interest groups from all over the political spectrum are united in panning President Barack Obama’s 2014 budget request for failing to acknowledge sequestration.
