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.
Aerospace and defense components manufacturer Arconic will break up, it’s days-old new leadership announced Feb. 8, with the company’s business sorted into Engineered Products & Forgings or Global Rolled Products, and one of them spun off.
Aircraft manufacturing giant Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems, the largest subassembly provider to Boeing 737 and other commercial programs, are currently practicing in Wichita, Kansas for a narrowbody production rate of 57 aircraft a month.
Triumph Group is rushing toward the potential climax of its three-year restructuring, the major aerostructures provider’s chief executive indicated Feb. 7, but the supplier is cutting another 600 jobs and looking at a few more business unit divestitures on top of a slew of recently jettisoned work.
