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.
Aerospace and defense manufacturers and suppliers looking to tap the U.S. government’s new coronavirus-related treasure trove of loans and guarantees will first have to show they could not find financing elsewhere, and they must not lay off more than 10% of their workforce through September.
United Technologies and Raytheon said March 30 they received the necessary antitrust and other regulatory approvals to complete their merger, and that their newly combined company should be born April 3.
