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.
Commercial business will be a relatively small part of the merged Harris and L3 Technologies, but the combined company will have key positions in air traffic management, flight training, cockpit avionics and airport security.
On the day the companies had long expected to be their first day as one corporation, the U.S. Justice Department – in cooperation with European and Canadian competition authorities – instead filed a lawsuit and outlined spinoff demands before United Technologies would be allowed to acquire Rockwell Collins.
