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.
At least one U.S. senator has placed a hold on a bill that would prohibit U.S. airlines from participating in the EU’s emissions trading system (ETS), preventing a vote on the contentious issue. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), the chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, says the committee provided “broad support” for the bill. Still, “a couple of people don’t like it,” Rockefeller tells Aviation Week . “One of them might be holding it up.”
The congressional compromise to keep the government running from the end of the fiscal year until next March stipulates that a weather satellite program should remain on schedule and blocks the Air Force from its plan to retire aircraft. The bill supports the Obama administration’s request for $88.5 billion in war funding.
The leaders of major U.S. defense companies remain largely undecided about whether to issue layoff notices before the Nov. 6 elections because of federal budget cuts that could take place in January. In late June, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) wrote to the nation’s top defense executives asking them how their companies would be impacted by the $1 trillion across-the-board budget reduction scheduled to take place unless Congress changes the current law. Over the summer, his office has been collecting the responses and released them Sept. 10.
