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Michael Bruno

Executive Editor, Business

Washington, DC

Summary

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.

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Articles

By Michael Bruno
The focus of debate over rechartering the U.S. Export-Import Bank has turned to the Senate this month. Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) are pushing a proposal to extend the bank another five years, but only if existing restrictions on supporting coal-fired power plants overseas are lifted.

By Michael Bruno
Like a bad wedding gift that cannot be offloaded, the FAA indicated last week it is investigating whether a photographer’s UAV-borne video of Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney’s recent nuptials violated current restrictions on unmanned aircraft in domestic airspace. Maloney, an upstate New York Democrat, is a minority member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure aviation subcommittee that oversees the FAA.

By Michael Bruno
Last week saw a slew of defense-related developments on Capitol Hill. While none of them alone was definitive for military programs, they continue to weave a narrative of tougher decisions to come over the defense budget starting next year and beyond. That is because Senate appropriators put their imprimatur on fiscal 2015 defense spending plans that—like other key legislative branch defense committees—overwhelmingly rebuffs the Pentagon’s first hard proposals to meet congressionally mandated sequestration-level spending caps.