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 Republican-led House Armed Services Committee (HASC) has finally met a defense spending cut it can tolerate. The deficit-reduction plan proposed by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) up for consideration by the full House July 28 may just be the lesser of two evils, according to HASC spokesman Claude Chafin.
The Internal Revenue Service wants airlines to refund passengers for taxes paid on tickets purchased before the FAA shut down, and the Air Transport Association is pushing back. Travelers who bought tickets before the government stopped collecting taxes but are traveling after the FAA partially shut down, are entitled to a refund on excise taxes, according to a July 26 letter sent by IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman to Nick Calio, president and CEO of the Air Transport Association.
Boeing’s chief financial officer says the recently won U.S. Air Force KC-46A aerial refueling tanker program is expected to be “profitable over time” despite the company’s bid strategy of knowingly risking profitability in the development phase. “We had always bid this contract thinking that on the [engineering and manufacturing development] phase it would be very low profitability or even break-even,” said CFO James Bell during a second-quarter earnings telecon July 27. “Nothing has changed from that philosophy.”
