Based in Washington, Jen manages Aviation Week’s worldwide defense, space and security coverage.
Prior to taking on her current 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.
In less than one year, unmanned aircraft crashed into the Grand Canyon, buzzed over an amphitheater at Mount Rushmore and harassed bighorn sheep in Utah. Now, UAVs are no longer welcome at U.S. National Parks. National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis will not allow UAVs to launch, land or operate on national park grounds, at least for now. During the temporary ban, he is planning to propose regulating the use of UAVs. This is often a hurry-up-and-wait process that requires a public comment period.
To the relief of a number of defense contractors, Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) clung to his Senate seat in a primary runoff election. It was not an unexpected struggle. To appeal to Democrats, who could cross party lines to vote, the six-term senator highlighted his prowess at delivering federal dollars to the state.
Smarting from the public outrage over how an aircraft the size of a Boeing 777 could vanish, a top official at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is trying to break through the inertia that often slows the release of new global standards. Nancy Graham, director of ICAO’s Air Navigation Bureau, is spearheading efforts within the Montreal-based organization to publish global tracking standards for aircraft in two years, a fraction of the time a major action might otherwise take.
