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.
It took Congress seven years and 23 extensions to pass a bill to authorize funding and set policies for the FAA for the next four years. It took makers and users of NextGen air traffic management equipment about a day to recognize that while the FAA reauthorization bill makes welcome changes, realizing the full benefits of air traffic modernization is still a long way off. The funding picture in the bill is not quite what industry had hoped, and all signs point to the fact that it is not likely to get much better.
With looming slowdowns to the development of a new generation of U.S. ballistic missile submarines and a nuclear bomb life-extension program, the House of Representatives is set to become the battlefield for a growing fight over potential reductions to what the Obama administration had pledged to spend on nuclear modernization over the next 10 years.
NEW BLOOD: The U.S. State Department is looking for a few new members of a private-sector advisory panel to advise Andrew Shapiro, assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs, on defense trade regulations and export reforms for the next two years. The panel’s changeover comes as the Obama administration is in the process of overhauling the U.S. munitions list. Forty-five people served on the Defense Trade Advisory Group from 2010 to 2012, and it has been led by George Sevier of MK Technology and Joyce Remington of BAE Systems.
