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.
Across-the-board budget cuts beginning March 1 could squeeze NASA funding by $14 billion over the next eight years, according to a report by Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee. A “constraint” in the bill that imposes sequestration mandates that funding for the Census Bureau follow its traditional pattern, the report says. The census is funded at low levels during the early years of the decade and higher levels later as the next census deadline draws near.
U.S. administration officials are preparing to endorse a report that calls for revisions to the nation’s nuclear strategy and discusses the possibility of a one-third reduction to the arsenal, according to the Center for Public Integrity. The document does not call for immediate changes to the nuclear force; rather officials are seeking to negotiate further reductions to nuclear weapons with Russia. It also notes that President Barack Obama may preview the issue during his Feb. 12 State of the Union Address.
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee is defending former Sen. Chuck Hagel’s (R-Neb.) right to decline to respond to demands for financial disclosures, saying they go “far beyond the financial disclosure required of previous secretaries of defense.” Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) had hoped to vote last week on Hagel’s nomination to lead the Pentagon, but Levin pushed off the vote to provide time to respond a request for information submitted by Republicans.
