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.
The head of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) is blasting U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s decision to “pre-empt” Congress and stop work on the General Electric/Rolls-Royce F136 alternate engine for the Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter.
When Congress returns to Washington next week, it will begin work on what is likely the last in a series of stopgap spending bills keeping the government running in this fiscal year, says Rep. Rick Larsen (D-Wash.). The spending package is likely to include funding for the Defense Department, along with domestic programs. “I don’t see defense being pulled out,” the House Armed Services committee member said after remarks at the 9th Annual U.S. Missile Defense Conference and Exhibit on March 21.
MDA BUDGET: Current stopgap bills are funding the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Ground-based Midcourse Defense program at a reduced budget of $320 million, says Rep.
