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.
While Senate and House leaders are still at loggerheads over how to fund the government, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather satellite system is just one of a number of potential casualties.
COST CUTTING: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is praising House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) proposal to cut $4 trillion from the federal deficit over a decade — which largely spares Pentagon weapon programs (See story p. 3) — but has his own idea for reining in the runaway costs of military gear. “When you develop a weapon system in the future, this should be a fixed-price contract, not a cost-plus contract, and the contractor should have 25 percent cost sharing in the development cost,” Graham says.
Pentagon weapons programs win big in a pair of budget proposals floated by Republicans on Capitol Hill, escaping sweeping cuts applied to much of the federal government to curtail the deficit. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) rolled out a proposal that would fund the Defense Department for the rest of the year along lines previously approved by the House and put the rest of the government on another stop-gap spending bill for one week.
