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 Senate has passed a bill to keep the government running once the current stopgap spending bill expires on March 27. The bill, passed by a vote of 73-26, will fund NASA and the Pentagon at fiscal 2013 levels. That eases the military’s concerns about the effects on force readiness if it were to be funded at 2012 levels for all of fiscal 2013, but does not address $85 billion in across-the-board budget cuts imposed by sequestration.
Efforts to stop funding the development of a tri-national missile defense system that the U.S. has no plans to deploy are part of the down-to-the-wire debate on a spending bill crafted to keep the government running after the current stopgap measure expires March 27.
SAN JOSE DOS CAMPOS, Brazil — Two years after formally establishing its defense and security unit, Embraer has brought in $1.056 billion in revenue, posting 24% growth over last year. And in the next eight years, the company is setting continually high expectations of double-digit growth, says Luiz Carlos Aguiar, the division’s chief executive officer. The company is continuing its effort to capture Brazilian defense contracts and to establish itself as a systems integrator for countries that do not already have an entrenched industrial base.
