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.
Three of NASA’s top priorities – the Orion spacecraft, the Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket and the James Webb Space Telescope – fared well in a bill to authorize $17.64 billion in fiscal 2015 for the space agency approved by the House Science, Space and Technology Committee on April 29. The same could not be said for NASA’s commercial crew program. The committee sliced $152 million from the Obama administration’s $848 million request.
