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.
As the Pentagon prepares for across-the-board cuts to government spending, the competition for scarcer dollars is already beginning. A union representing 270,000 Pentagon civilians worries that the Pentagon could wind up converting civilian jobs to contract ones as the civilian workforce shrinks but the workload remains. Last year, the Pentagon issued guidance against that practice, known as direct conversions, and the head of the American Federation of Government Employees has asked the Pentagon to repeat the message.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is reinvigorating the debate over providing military assistance to Syrian rebels, saying it is running out of time to intervene in the ongoing civil war.
