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.
French aerospace and defense provider Thales on Oct. 3 raised sales and operating performance forecast for the coming years, with the benefits of recently acquired software security company Gemalto “offsetting a more uncertain outlook in the commercial space market and no growth in transport.”
New-space investing is continuing its heady climb in 2019, with the market’s first vertically integrated holding company, Voyager Space Holdings, announced Oct. 2.
Boeing and Embraer on Oct. 3 formally acknowledged they do not expect their commercial aircraft joint venture deal to close until “early 2020” after the European Commission indicated its competition review will extend into a Phase II.
