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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
Textron is cutting its Beechcraft and Cessna workforces by 750 full-time employees and contractors, the company warned workers. “This reduction affects all areas of the Beechcraft and Cessna businesses, including salaried and hourly employees in positions spanning from management to non-management levels,” Textron Human Resources Senior Vice President Jim Walters said in a letter to employees. Beechcraft and Cessna had a combined workforce of more than 13,000.

By Michael Bruno
Lockheed Martin’s chief executive remains bullish on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, despite another round of bruising headlines recently, because the company sees non-U.S. demand increasing and mitigating order cuts from the U.S. military.

By Michael Bruno
A potential U.S. sale of 18 standard-configuration Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters to the Mexican army is working its way up the approval system in Washington, officials said April 21. The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Mexico, worth roughly $680 million. The Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered required congressional notification to lawmakers April 17.