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.
As lawmakers consider how to shore up the nation's defenses while balancing the books, the nation's massive investments in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities may get a boost by their success. Like the use of Predators to help uncover explosive-making networks in Iraq, the raid on the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, notched another big win for ISR equipment, which Defense Secretary Robert Gates has championed.
Washington – The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee praised General Electric and Rolls-Royce for offering to fund the remaining stages of development for its F136 engine – which the Defense Department has canceled – and said the U.S. government should continue to let the companies operate at government facilities.
The helicopter that crashed in the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan was not undone by a mechanical failure or a pilot problem, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said at the Heritage Foundation on Thursday. The helicopter, which appears from published photographs to be an H-60 Black Hawk, crashed into the wall of the compound and ran into problems with a 15-deg. difference in temperature in the courtyard’s compound. “They couldn’t hold the hover,” said McKeon, who has received a briefing on the mission’s details.
