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.
For many observers outside of the aerospace and defense world, a purported merger of multi-industrial conglomerates Honeywell International and United Technologies Corp. (UTC) may spark curiosity and the short question, “Why?”
Even though the GAO has sided with the Air Force and its incumbent bomber provider, a contentious atmosphere means we have probably not heard the end of this dispute.
