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.
Can EADS North America gain gold out of defeat? Sam Adcock has a game plan to do just that. As senior vice president for government relations, Adcock is the top in-house lobbyist for the eight-year-old U.S. arm of the European defense giant. And although EADS is still smarting from the recent loss of the Air Force’s $35 billion tanker contract to Boeing, the company is pressing ahead with a plan to raise its U.S. revenues sevenfold by 2020, to $10 billion a year.
High-end and low-end U.S. Air Force programs are in line for scrutiny as Congress considers the fiscal 2012 budget request. Lawmakers already are facing the toughest budget negotiations in more than a decade, and the mood to trim the deficit is likely to remain. So at $718 million, the Air Force request to modernize the F-22 Raptor is a tempting line item in the Air Force budget.
Budget politics could threaten the safety of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and leave the nation vulnerable to nuclear terrorists, the House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee says in a letter to House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan. Republicans pledged not to touch security spending in 2011, but the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) was part of across-the-board spending cuts, says subcommittee chairman Michael Turner (R-Ohio) in the March 23 letter to Ryan.
