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. Navy’s decision to stop buying MH-60 helicopters after fiscal 2015 – a year before it had planned – would breach a current multiyear contract agreement with Sikorsky.
Alongside the spending blueprint for fiscal 2015-19 coming out this week, the Obama administration is expected to publish its latest Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). It will lay out a painful course change for a nation accustomed to having a military sized to go anywhere and do anything, simultaneously in different places.
U.S. national security officials are sorting through intelligence collected about North Korea's latest missile test. South Korean media reported that Pyongyang fired four short-range ballistic missiles on Feb. 27. They “appeared to be of the Scud variety [and] were fired in a northeasterly direction and landed off [North Korea's] coast,” a spokesman says. Top national security lawmakers are not yet commenting on the apparent test.
