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.
The U.S. and China may be able to participate in military exercises, create rules for dealing with one-off conflicts and improve relations and communications via a new secure teleconferencing channel. But the underlying tensions that strain relations between the world’s two largest economic powers remain apparent. Gen. Fang Fenghui, the Chinese chief of defense, visited the U.S. last week, touring an aircraft carrier and attending meetings with Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the Pentagon.
Next month, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) will try for a third time in four years to achieve an intercept in what was billed six years ago as one of the most challenging trials of the troubled Boeing Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system. The trial, designed to simulate a North Korean ballistic missile attack, will aim for head-on intercept between an upgraded Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (called the CE-2). The Kill Vehicle was originally tested in January 2010 and then again in December of that year, says Roger Krone, president of Boeing Network and Space Systems.
