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The Pentagon’s decision to scrap the F-35 alternative engine program is based on out-of-date information, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) tells the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. “An up-to-date, comprehensive analysis that takes into consideration both the total costs and benefits during the entire life-cycle of both engines would be an important tool for making investment decisions,” wrote Michael Sullivan, GAO’s director of acquisition and sourcing management.
Aviation groups are mobilizing to denounce President Obama’s proposal to add a $100 departure tax to help pay for his jobs plan and further reduce the deficit. The airline and business aviation communities are ready to fight both this and a tripling of the passenger security tax.
Think fighting three wars simultaneously was tough? Try convincing lawmakers to negotiate entitlement and tax reform while keeping their paws off the Pentagon's war chest—and do it by the end of November. That is the position being pursued by the Pentagon and the defense industry, which are joined at the hip in fighting anything larger than the $400 billion in reductions to the military till that was dealt last April.
