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.
Calls to lift the FAA’s partial shutdown are being heard on Capitol Hill, but that doesn’t mean the stalemate will end any time soon. Senators remain divided over the same sticking points that halted action last Friday on an extension to the FAA reauthorization bill. And the debate in Washington over reducing the deficit is drowning out the fact that across the U.S., the FAA has furloughed 4,000 workers and continues to issue more stop-work orders for airport construction projects.
The partial shutdown of the FAA, due to Congress’s failure to extend a reauthorization bill, has expanded into stop-work orders on airport construction and is threatening plans to spend $2.5 billion of Airport Improvement Program (AIP) money on expansion projects, including the Next Generation air transportation system (NextGen).
The FAA went into partial shutdown Friday after the House and Senate left Washington for the weekend with no agreement on an extension on the reauthorization bill that expired at midnight.
