Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Michael Bruno
A new year’s prediction: 2019 will see “big money” finally buy in on aerospace—or decide to leave it for another generation. The chances are 50-50.
Space

By Michael Bruno
Defense contractors’ work for Saudi Arabia seems to fall in a Goldilocks position. It sounds like a recipe for the status quo, like it or not.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
The momentum at Mercury could be emblematic of who the real winners of the Trump era in defense spending really may be.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Michael Bruno
Looking to 2019 and beyond, stock-pickers are betting fortunes in A&D will diverge again. One group is already suffering as investors move their money.
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
The list of things that can go wrong for the aerospace and defense sector seems only to be growing. But to suppliers, happy days are here again.
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
In hypersonics, it is hard to know which is going faster, the hype or the reality. But increasingly, investors could be betting on the latter.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
A new Pentagon rule change would slow cash flow to contractors until they prove they deserve it with good performance. Industry is shooting back.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
The need for new workers—especially technology-oriented employees—and the difficulty in getting them is the talk of the industry.
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
Boomer retirements may portend one of the greatest gold rushes in living memory: small and midsize M&A.
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
A shortage of executive talent could be the next big workforce shortfall to hit aerospace and defense, and companies are starting to get worried.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Michael Bruno
Rolls-Royce has been through tough times before, but is this time different?
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
The business case for Boeing’s NMA may be hard to close, especially for suppliers, as cost and return on investment issues remain.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
It seems that few large corporations want to be a conglomerate anymore, and the time appears ripe for selling off.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
The Defense Department and the tech community have distinctly different approaches to problem solving, but both sides are working on mutual understanding.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
A set of small-and-growing defense companies are beginning to make their mark on sector’s landscape.
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
What the KLX Aerospace acquisition says about Boeing, future acquisitions and the aftermarket
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Michael Bruno
Life is so good for the aerospace supply chain right now it hurts.
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
As the aerospace industry welcomes the pending wave of aircraft products and services, experts warn that the promises of today can turn into problems.
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
Yes, what happened to the parent company of the aerospace and defense industry’s No. 2 aerostructures provider could happen to your company.
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
The aerostructures subsector, responsible for providing airframers the largest subassemblies, could become a lot more intimate in the next few years.
Program Management

By Michael Bruno
Industry knows the risk of being targets of retaliation in a global trade war are growing. To them, the only way to win is not to start a fight.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Maybe Trump’s spending surge will lead to growth in A&D employment. But if not, it may not be his fault.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
With tax cuts and market growth fattening balance sheets, industry is busy trying to right the wrongs of its past.
Business Aviation

By Michael Bruno
Marines are used to getting people to move faster. Now a Marine is ordering the aerospace sector to do just that, and it would behoove industry to snap to it.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Shareholders of public A&D companies have always been expected to benefit from U.S. tax law changes, but another list of potential winners is emerging.
Air Transport