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.
F-22A Raptor advocates in Congress have suffered a small blow as the congressional Government Accountability Office issued a report June 21 that said, "the DOD has not demonstrated the need or value for making further investments in the F-22A program."
Investigators from at least two federal agencies are examining the wreckage of a Predator B to determine what caused the Homeland Security Dept.'s only unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to go out of control and crash in the Arizona desert last week.
U.S. lawmakers are vying to show who loves the endangered C-17 Globemaster III more. The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) is recommending $227.5 million toward advance procurement for more of the heavy lifters in Fiscal 2008. Last month the full House agreed to appropriate just $100 million for the Boeing C-17, which is slated to cease production in 2008 (AW&ST Mar. 27, p. 38).
