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.
After telling the nation that across-the-board budget cuts “will not happen,” President Barack Obama gave a preview of how he would avoid the penalty for failing to reduce the deficit — a grand bargain in the first six months of his term.
Despite a sustained outcry from the defense community about the potential devastation of sequestration, the U.S. airlines’ leading trade group says that the budget cuts will not affect the country’s air transport system. “No one knows what might happen should sequestration occur,” a spokeswoman for Airlines for America (A4A) tells Aviation Week, adding that the group was encouraged by President Barack Obama’s Oct. 22 debate statement that sequestration “will not happen.”
