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 potential U.S. sale of 18 standard-configuration Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters to the Mexican army is working its way up the approval system in Washington, officials said April 21. The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Mexico, worth roughly $680 million. The Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered required congressional notification to lawmakers April 17.
Two new composite fan blade manufacturing plants for Safran are coming alive this month and are worth hundreds of millions of dollars in investments that indicate the Paris-based company’s latest mark of confidence in the CFM Leap-1 engine and the U.S. market.
