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.
President Barack Obama’s appointment of three new members of the National Labor Relations Board could disrupt an agreement on the FAA reauthorization bill, an investment analyst says.
One year ago, with a newly elected Republican-majority House of Representatives, Rep. John Mica picked up the gavel of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and vowed that the 17th extension of the FAA's funding authority would be the last. Congress has since approved five more extensions, with Mica at the forefront of negotiations that led to a two-week shutdown of the aviation agency.
The U.S. Air Force must head back to the drawing board in 2012 to once again rethink its successor to the aging Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) spacecraft currently in orbit, now that Congress has preemptively taken the budget ax to Northrop Grumman’s Defense Weather Satellite System (DWSS). The fiscal 2012 defense spending bill passed last week provides $43 million in termination costs for DWSS and $125 million for a follow-on satellite. Lawmakers cut the Pentagon’s $444.9 million request.
