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.
Asked to stop reaping profits from the partial shutdown of the FAA, the Air Transport Association (ATA) says airlines will continue collecting the fees, citing an “excessive tax burden” on the industry. Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) on Wednesday wrote a letter asking Delta Chairman and CEO Richard Anderson, as the current chairman of the ATA, to persuade airlines to set aside revenues they gain by continuing to collect money from passengers that otherwise would have gone to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund.
The Pentagon’s effort to nail down $400 billion in cuts has been so tough that doubling that goal “would be extraordinarily difficult and very high risk,” the nominee to be the next top U.S. military leader told lawmakers.
Calls to lift the FAA’s partial shutdown are being heard on Capitol Hill, but that doesn’t mean the stalemate will end any time soon. Senators remain divided over the same sticking points that halted action last Friday on an extension to the FAA reauthorization bill. And the debate in Washington over reducing the deficit is drowning out the fact that across the U.S., the FAA has furloughed 4,000 workers and continues to issue more stop-work orders for airport construction projects.
