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.
Tier 2 manufacturer Senior will continue its move away from the U.S. Pacific Northwest and elsewhere and toward locating more work in Asia, as well as continuing to shop the British company’s aerostructures business, executives said Mar. 2.
Small-satellite manufacturer GomSpace last year cut more than 100 workers from its staff—which numbered 231 at the start of 2019—as it sought about $6.3 million worth of cost savings while wrestling with “the loss of the large Sky and Space Global order.”
Private equity investors are combining Aero Precision and Kellstrom Defense, both military aircraft MRO specialists, to become “one of the largest privately owned military aftermarket distribution businesses in the industry,” the companies said March 2.
