Based in Washington, Michael Bruno is Aviation Week Network’s Executive Editor for Business. He oversees coverage of aviation, aerospace and defense business issues, and is editor in chief of Aviation Week Executive Intelligence newsletters. Beyond reporting, Bruno helps organize related Aviation Week conferences, hosts podcasts and webinars, and speaks publicly as a subject matter expert on industry issues. Since joining Aviation Week in 2005, he has won several Jesse H. Neal and Aerospace Media awards. He has a master's degree from Syracuse University and a bachelor's from Vanderbilt University.
Avionics provider Rockwell Collins on July 25 cited allegedly late payments by aircraft OEM Boeing as one reason for less-than-stellar quarterly financial results.
Space policy and programs rarely rise to the top of the list of issues discussed during U.S. presidential elections, but if one Washington-focused consulting company’s report is an indication, NASA supporters have reason to be optimistic regardless of change of control in the nation’s capital.
The U.S. Export-Import Bank has remained hobbled by tea party lawmakers who refuse to allow a quorum of directors to take seats, but that may be changing if some other Republicans and Democrats have their way.
