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.
OFF AND RUNNING: A former U.S. Marine and analyst with a K-Street think tank is heading outside the Beltway, hoping the citizens of Oklahoma will send him back to Washington as a Republican member of Congress in 2013. Sept. 30 was retired Lt. Col. Dakota Wood’s last day as a land and irregular warfare expert for the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. He formally kicks off his campaign Oct. 6. During his time in the Marine Corps, Wood conducted defense, policy and political analysis.
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is taking a closer look at FAA’s Next Generation air traffic control system’s costs, benefits, progress and management in an Oct. 5 hearing. In the past, committee Chairman Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) has pledged to provide strict oversight of the NextGen, and ensure that it takes the steps it needs to succeed.
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.
