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.
It was no secret that across-the-board budget cuts would reduce purchases of major defense equipment and slow deliveries, but testimony delivered to a House panel dealing with the military’s air and ground forces lays out a string of specific programmatic effects due to sequestration and continued funding under fiscal 2012 levels.
House Republicans are moving forward with a plan to pass a continuing resolution to prevent a government shutdown at the end of March that assumes across-the-board budget cuts will be in effect. The continuing resolution would fund the government at fiscal 2012 levels, except for the Pentagon, military construction and veterans affairs. It would fund the military using a version of the fiscal 2013 defense spending bill passed by the House last year.
ANOTHER SOLUTION: Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) is offering yet another bill to replace impending reductions to the federal budget that would reduce defense spending by $167 billion between 2014 and 2021. It would reduce total discretionary spending by $320 billion over the same time frame.
