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 Obama reopened barely healed wounds and drew an outcry of protests from the general aviation community and elected officials last week when he pushed for increased taxes on millionaires, billionaires and corporate aircraft users, saying their tax breaks could compromise health, education and safety programs.
Defense and war costs have grown 74% during the United States’ slide from budget surplus in 2001 to debt in 2011, the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee said in a statement Thursday.
THREATS WORK: The possibility of a subpoena helped lawmakers wrest documents from NASA regarding its heavy-lift space launch system (SLS) plans, says the chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) says NASA has allowed the committee staff “to look at and read but not keep” documents related to NASA’s future human spaceflight plans. Congress has been trying to compel NASA to speed development of the SLS and the multipurpose crew vehicle intended to replace the space shuttle.
