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.
David A. Fulghum and Michael Bruno (Washington), Amy Butler (Orlando, Fla.)
President Bush has unveiled his proposal for a $2.9-trillion budget for Fiscal 2008, and Congress is beginning this week to wade into the details. Over the next 10 pages, AVIATION WEEK editors analyze the proposal's probable impact on defense, space and aviation--showing how it would affect dozens of federal programs and explaining how players outside the Bush administration will try to change the White House's spending plan as it moves forward in Washington.
Michael Bruno and David A. Fulghum (Washington), Craig Covault (Cape Canaveral)
China's Jan. 11 demonstration of a ballistic anti-satellite (Asat) weapon system is likely to underpin more U.S. spending for "responsive" small-satellite launch, space-asset defenses and greater attention to space "situational awareness" efforts, but not necessarily in the near term.
In the 30 years Rep. Ike Skelton has been in Congress, the U.S. has engaged in 12 military expeditions--from Grenada and Panama to Somalia and Afghanistan--but the Missouri Democrat says the war in Iraq has him worried about U.S. counterinsurgency capabilities. Counterinsurgency "over a period of years has become lost in the shuffle," the incoming chairman of the House Armed Services Committee says, adding that when Democrats assume control of Congress this month, they will take "a hard look" at both conventional warfare and counterinsurgency.
