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.
Airports could receive up to $3.5 billion this year for improvements in the spending bill passed last week by the House and Senate to fund the government for the rest of fiscal year 2011. That amount sits smack in the middle of what the House and Senate authorizing committees have approved for the Airport Improvement Program (AIP), leaving airport executives to push for at least that amount in the FAA reauthorization bill.
President Barack Obama did more than lay down a marker last week when he proposed $400 billion in new cuts to security spending in the next 12 years; his remarks emboldened a corps of fiscal hardliners seeking to lop nearly $1 trillion from military accounts. Here's the kicker: They may have a shot.
Frank Morring, Jr. (Colorado Springs), Jen DiMascio (Washington)
Contractors and wannabes will push hard in the weeks ahead to capture some of the $18.5 billion NASA has to spend by the end of September. Congress's compromise continuing resolution finally puts some new money behind the space policy Congress and the White House have debated since President Barack Obama issued his fiscal 2011 NASA budget request in February 2010.
