Dawn Kopecki is a correspondent in BusinessWeek's Washington bureau, covering national security, defense, intelligence, and government-contracting issues. Previously, she worked for Dow Jones Newswires in Washington for seven years and before that covered banking, tourism, and lobbying at The Washington Times. Kopecki also worked as the business editor at the Aspen Daily News in Colorado and as a news anchor for KSPN Radio in Aspen, Colo. She started her career at Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine after graduating from Penn State University in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a near-minor in Russian