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.
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is taking a closer look at FAA’s Next Generation air traffic control system’s costs, benefits, progress and management in an Oct. 5 hearing. In the past, committee Chairman Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) has pledged to provide strict oversight of the NextGen, and ensure that it takes the steps it needs to succeed.
With federal deficit-reduction efforts in full swing, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan drawing to a close, and a history as the U.S. military’s back bench, the National Guard could easily return to postwar oblivion. But in this post-9/11 austerity era, the hybrid military group’s supporters have a different, much stronger future in mind, and now they seem on the cusp of achieving it.
In mid-October, nearly 4,000 FAA workers will receive back pay for wages lost during the late-July partial shutdown of the agency, according to a New Jersey congressman. Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-N.J.), who represents the district in which nearly 650 workers from the FAA Technical Center in Egg Harbor Township were furloughed, had promised the workers that receiving back pay would not be a problem. But lawmakers have not included funding in spending bills considered since the shutdown.
