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.
A strange thing happened after Boeing announced Apr. 5 that it would slow production of new 737 narrowbodies to 42 aircraft a month from the current rate of 52 by the middle of April: Nobody else in the supply chain did the same.
Germany’s Hensoldt, the former Airbus defense electronics unit, continued its stand-alone growth strategy on April 12 with the announcement it will buy Nexeya’s test and integration and services business as well as major parts of its mission management and power conversion businesses.
