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.
Massachusetts Senators Elizabeth Warren (D) and William Cowen (D) are pressuring the U.S. Army and the Pentagon to support the Army’s network modernization efforts, which are being squeezed by sequestration and other demands on the Pentagon’s budget.
FURLOUGHS LOOM: The Pentagon is preparing its civilian workforce for up to 11 days of furloughs this year, starting the week of July 8, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says in a May 14 memo. Across-the-board budget cuts aimed at reducing the federal deficit drove the furloughs. Hagel says the Pentagon’s budget for fiscal 2013 was slashed by $37 billion, $20 billion of which hit personnel-heavy operations and maintenance accounts.
An open-source data mining effort to gather intelligence and track risks could gain steam in the commercial world, according to a Lockheed Martin engineer. Lockheed Martin’s Web Information Spread Data Operations Module (Wisdom) program focuses primarily on security-based risk assessment for the government, says Mike Baylor, engineering manager with Lockheed’s Information Systems & Global Solutions.
