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.
Surrogates for the U.S. presidential candidates dueled in Washington this week, underscoring both sides’ inability to answer questions on the topic of defense spending. Speaking on behalf of the Obama administration at a Brookings Institution event July 25, Michele Flournoy, the former Pentagon under secretary for policy, outlined the military’s broad budget plans, emphasizing that what is called $487 billion in cuts to defense spending over the next decade is just “a reduction in the rate of planned growth.”
Three Republican senators have scheduled a two-day blitz of East Coast military hubs to make the case for preventing a $500 billion reduction to defense spending starting in January.
