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.
President-elect Donald Trump's Dec. 12 Twitter attack on F-35 costs is not the first time his tweets have had an impact on defense stocks, following on the heels of his Boeing Air Force One comments the previous week.
A Treasury Department official signed a document explaining that re-exportation of commercial aircraft to Iran would be authorized on “temporary sojourn” of 72 hr. or less by a non-U.S. person, assuming certain restrictions.