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.
In the midst of doom-and-gloom predictions about prospects for the FAA reauthorization bill, there is also some movement toward an agreement. The leaders of the House and Senate transportation committees met yesterday to discuss how a “pre-conference” to resolve outstanding issues between the two versions of the bill should proceed. “We directed our staffs to begin again and come back to us on the 30th,” of November, said Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), chairman of the House panel. The current extension expires Jan. 31, 2012.
An irate U.S. senator implored the aviation industry to advocate more aggressively for an FAA reauthorization bill, which he says is in danger of failing to pass at all and is again falling apart over small-bore issues. He also asked an aviation community fighting tax increases to consider the need to address revenues to save the community’s flagship modernization program—the Next Generation air traffic control (ATC) system.
Foreign governments have been known to describe the U.S. export system in terms fit for a circus. Kevin Wolf, assistant secretary of commerce for export administration, remembers the comment this way: “You authorize the export of the elephant, but you make it difficult to get the peanuts.”
