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.
An outside Alternatives Analysis (AA) ordered by the U.S. Coast Guard has found that regardless of the actions selected from a range of recommendations, the service faces infrastructure funding and scheduling shortfalls in modernization. The long-awaited analysis, spurred by widespread congressional criticism last year over Deepwater program failings, looked at planned new Coast Guard cutters, patrol boats, aircraft and a vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned aerial vehicle (VUAV).
U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) will need at least 96 new bombers that are capable of launching nuclear weapons, although Air Force requirements for conventional bombing may drive that number even higher, STRATCOM’s chief says.
The chairman of the House defense appropriations subcommittee suggests concerns about politics, jobs and international rivalries could derail the selection of the Northrop Grumman/EADS team in the U.S. Air Force tanker competition.
