Jen Judson

Jen Judson is an award-winning journalist covering land warfare for Defense News. She has also worked for Politico and Inside Defense. She holds a Master of Science degree in journalism from Boston University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Kenyon College.


  • BAE Systems Presents First AMPV Prototype to US Army
    BAE Systems Presents First AMPV Prototype to US Army

    BAE Systems rolled out its first general purpose variant of the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) prototype for the US Army Thursday in a ceremony at its facility in York, Pennsylvania, just two years after being awarded the contract to build 29 vehicles in five variants.

  • Kuwait Wants Abrams Tank Upgrades
    Kuwait Wants Abrams Tank Upgrades

    Kuwait wants to upgrade and extend the life of its aging principal tank fleet for an estimated $1.7 billion, according to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency.

  • BAE Systems Delivers First Amphibious Combat Vehicle Prototypes to Marine Corps
    BAE Systems Delivers First Amphibious Combat Vehicle Prototypes to Marine Corps

    BAE Systems delivered to the US Marine Corps the first of its Amphibious Combat Vehicles 1.1 prototypes, catching up to a service-set schedule which had slipped due to a bid protest.

  • Saudi Arabia Chinook Buy Could Help Close US Army Production Gap
    Saudi Arabia Chinook Buy Could Help Close US Army Production Gap

    Saudi Arabia is poised to buy nearly 50 CH-47F Chinook cargo helicopters, the largest foreign military sale for Chinooks to date, and it would help shore up a production gap in the US Army’s procurement program, according to a service spokesman.

  • Peru Wants US Army Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicles
    Peru Wants US Army Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicles

    Some of the Army’s excess flat-bottomed Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicles could go to Peru.

  • Army Debating Suitable Aircraft For Future Attack Mission
    Army Debating Suitable Aircraft For Future Attack Mission

    The Army has a long road ahead as it carves a path to buy a new family of helicopters in the 2030s, and much still needs to be decided, according to the Army’s Future Vertical Lift program office director.

  • Army Electronic Warfare Strategy Nearing Completion
    Army Electronic Warfare Strategy Nearing Completion

    The establishment of an Army Cyber Directorate, the Rapid Capabilities Office and a nearly completed strategy are ushering in a more productive era in electronic warfare capability development, according to Col. Jeffrey Church, the chief of strategy and policy in the cyber directorate.

  • NDAA Requires Army To Buy Intelligence Software Commercially
    NDAA Requires Army To Buy Intelligence Software Commercially

    A provision in the conference report of the 2017 defense policy bill further pushes the Army toward buying a commercial system to fulfill intelligence analysis requirements.

  • Interview: President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic
    Interview: President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic

    Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, Croatia’s president, spoke on an all-female panel on the necessity of NATO at the Halifax National Security Forum flanked by Rose Gottemoeller, NATO’s deputy secretary general, and Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, the vice prime minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic integration.

  • Poland Wants Extended-Range JASSM Missiles
    Poland Wants Extended-Range JASSM Missiles

    Poland wants to buy 70 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles Extended Range (JASSM-ER) missiles for its F-16 fighter jets, according to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which notified Congress Monday.