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.
Boeing’s Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) missile shield program is in a financial quandary owing to ongoing anemic Congressional funding from continued resolutions passed this fiscal year and an ongoing review into the program’s last flight-test failure. Though Boeing is continuing to produce the Orbital Ground Based Interceptors (GBIs) made by Orbital Sciences, some suspect components are on hold pending the outcome of an investigation into what caused the failure during a January intercept attempt.
Can EADS North America gain gold out of defeat? Sam Adcock has a game plan to do just that. As senior vice president for government relations, Adcock is the top in-house lobbyist for the eight-year-old U.S. arm of the European defense giant. And although EADS is still smarting from the recent loss of the Air Force’s $35 billion tanker contract to Boeing, the company is pressing ahead with a plan to raise its U.S. revenues sevenfold by 2020, to $10 billion a year.
High-end and low-end U.S. Air Force programs are in line for scrutiny as Congress considers the fiscal 2012 budget request. Lawmakers already are facing the toughest budget negotiations in more than a decade, and the mood to trim the deficit is likely to remain. So at $718 million, the Air Force request to modernize the F-22 Raptor is a tempting line item in the Air Force budget.
