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 NASA researcher alleged to be spying for the Chinese was exonerated by a U.S. federal court charge of lying to federal investigators. The charge against Bo Jiang was dropped after a six-week investigation by the FBI in which nine computers and storage devices were examined. Computer files that Jiang tried to bring to China in March 2013 did not contain classified, export-controlled or proprietary NASA information, according to a statement from the National Institute of Aerospace.
IN LIMBO: The budget uncertainty pervading Washington continues, and the Obama administration has not decided whether it will have to turn in an alternative budget for fiscal 2014 or work with Congress to make adjustments, should steep budget cuts aimed at reducing the deficit remain in effect next year. In part that is due to a debt-ceiling fight that was expected to occur this summer but is now likely to be pushed into the fall, Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters this week.
As the leader of Air Mobility Command, which is charged with providing global mobility to the U.S. military, Gen. Paul Selva finds that the across-the-board budget cut known as sequestration “consumes a disproportionate share of our time.” Budget planners are reprioritizing the money that commanders have to use on a weekly basis. And commanders are trying to make sure that those under their command stay focused on training and executing missions, rather than on the fate of the organization as a whole.
