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.
In what might be an example of the industrial effect of subdued U.K. defense spending, England’s Ultra Electronics said Nov. 10 that CEO Rakesh Sharma “stepped down” immediately.
The U.S. Defense Department is on course to begin a three-year pilot program to charge losers of contract bid protests under a provision of the recently agreed on defense authorization compromise for fiscal 2018.
