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.
GE Aviation, the leading division within General Electric, is cutting 10% of its U.S. workforce as it anticipates a steep falloff in maintenance, repair and overhaul work for three months, and it will continue to let go outsourced workers in the wake of the novel coronavirus, the company’s head executive said March 23.
Major aviation training and simulator provider CAE said it is temporarily laying off at least 465 staff starting March 27 and cutting staff manager salaries in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.
With the defense industrial base formally declared "critical infrastructure," the Defense Department is emphasizing the supply chain's "special responsibility" to maintain schedules.
