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.
Leonardo looks to bolster its existing core business of electro-optical and infrared sensors and systems with the acquisition, and ride business growth in new U.S. military aircraft survivability systems.
Boeing still has much to figure out, if it is going to pursue a new midsize airplane, according to the godfather of modern aircraft leasing, Air Lease Corp. Executive Chairman Steven Udvar-Hazy.
Renegotiation of scope clause restrictions is increasingly weighing on regional jet makers and associated sectors like appraisers, but predictions of change are few and far between, according to comments offered during the Istat Americas 2017 conference here.
