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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
U.S. defense officials and executives must figure out how to shepherd more industrial consolidation, bring more commercial technology into the defense sector, and embrace the notion that the business model of providing national security is becoming more global in character, according to a former No. 2 Pentagon official. William Lynn III, CEO of Finmeccanica North America and DRS Technologies, and President Barack Obama’s first deputy defense secretary, says that in the future the West’s defense industry could come to look a lot like the auto industry.

By Michael Bruno
Boeing alone could face “long-term credit risks” if the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im), the official export credit agency of America, is not

By Michael Bruno
Boeing could face “long-term credit risks” if the U.S. Export-Import Bank, the official export credit agency of America, is not reauthorized before