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.
With two weeks to go before $46 billion in cuts to the Pentagon’s fiscal 2013 budget take effect, the military’s top brass appealed to the Senate Armed Services Committee during a Feb. 12 hearing for a delay or replacement for the budget penalty known as sequestration. And while Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, acknowledged that he is running out of adjectives to describe the horror of sequestration, the hearing did unearth a couple of new details about its effects on investment accounts and fleet sizes.
If Congress continues to fund the government at fiscal 2012 levels for all of fiscal 2013, the U.S. Air Force’s plan for the block purchase of Space Based Infrared System (Sbirs) satellites is in doubt, according to an Air Force background paper.
The Senate Armed Services Committee will meet Feb. 12 at 2:30 p.m. to discuss what has become an extraordinarily controversial nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) for defense secretary. Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) intends to call for a panel vote on the nomination after the discussion.
