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.
As the year comes to a close, the U.S. State Department continues to push forward with its overhaul of the U.S. Munitions List and other reforms to facilitate the sale of weapons abroad. This week, the department announced revisions to the munitions list for military electronics and refined the rules for components and parts.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is making yet another run at trying to force the U.S. to sell 66 F-16 C/D multi-role fighter aircraft to Taiwan. Cornyn, along with Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), have teamed up for a third attempt to make the sale of the Lockheed Martin fighters and hope to include it in the fiscal 2013 defense authorization bill being considered this week on the Senate floor.
The incoming chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has a long list of priorities for the next congressional session, but aviation is not among them. Given that the FAA Modernization and Reform Act that passed early this year will last for four years, Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) says he will focus his energy largely on highways, railways and ports.
