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.
Washington – Lawmakers are supremely unhappy with the Air Force’s defense of its fiscal 2013 budget request, and it was on display May 8 after the House Appropriations defense subcommittee approved its bill.
The U.S. House of Representatives has an agreement to vote on a bill to authorize funding for the Export-Import Bank for three more years and raise its lending cap to $140 billion by 2014, and a key business group is now lobbying legislators to make sure the bill passes.
An industry trade group is trying to spur the release of the FAA’s proposed rules for allowing small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to operate in civilian airspace, which had been anticipated in March. On April 26, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) confirmed that the rules had not received the “appropriate signatures” needed before they could be forwarded to OMB for release to the public, the letter says.
