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 partial shutdown of the FAA, due to Congress’s failure to extend a reauthorization bill, has expanded into stop-work orders on airport construction and is threatening plans to spend $2.5 billion of Airport Improvement Program (AIP) money on expansion projects, including the Next Generation air transportation system (NextGen).
The FAA went into partial shutdown Friday after the House and Senate left Washington for the weekend with no agreement on an extension on the reauthorization bill that expired at midnight.
As large cuts to the U.S. defense budget are picking up an air of inevitability, more program kills are probably on their way, the military’s likely next second-in-command told senators July 21.
