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.
The House of Representatives passed a bill Oct. 24 that would bar U.S. air carriers from participating in an EU cap-and-trade plan to reduce carbon emissions. The bill also instructs administration officials to negotiate away penalties imposed under the system. While members of the House were celebrating the bill, dismissing EU’s inclusion of airlines in its emissions trading system (ETS) due to take effect Jan. 1 as “misguided and illegal,” the legislation drew criticism from environmentalists.
The chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is setting an ambitious goal—getting the FAA reauthorization bill signed into law by the end of the year, he told reporters yesterday. “I’ll take whatever measures I need to finish this before the end of the year,” said Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) about the bill that has been extended 21 times already, including one extension that led to a two-week partial shutdown of the FAA during the summer.
With federal deficit-reduction efforts in full swing, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan drawing to a close, and a history as the U.S. military's back bench, the National Guard could easily return to postwar oblivion. But in this post-9/11, austerity era, the hybrid military group's supporters have a different, much stronger future in mind, and now they seem on the cusp of achieving it.
