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.
A follow-up high-tech development program has caught the eye of a leading lawmaker on defense issues eager to ensure that the Pentagon does not resurrect an alternative engine program for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Last year, General Electric finally ceded an epic battle to try to make an engine for the program, leaving the engine made by Pratt & Whitney, whose parent company United Technologies is based in Connecticut, as the last engine standing.
Washington – Lawmakers are supremely unhappy with the Air Force’s defense of its fiscal 2013 budget request, and it was on display May 8 after the House Appropriations defense subcommittee approved its bill.
The U.S. House of Representatives has an agreement to vote on a bill to authorize funding for the Export-Import Bank for three more years and raise its lending cap to $140 billion by 2014, and a key business group is now lobbying legislators to make sure the bill passes.
