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.
Elbit Systems of America will continue to look for bolt-on acquisitions providing specialty technology and L3Harris is expected to continue divesting parts of its newly combined business portfolio now that the companies have closed the sale of a night vision business.
The proposed tie-up of Raytheon and United Technologies is being billed publicly as a potential catalyst for new technology some day in the future, but executives are acknowledging the deal may be better known as a cash generator for investors in the nearer term.
