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.
Two years after he ushered his “Pilot’s Bill of Rights” into law to bolster private pilots’ positions during federal enforcement actions, the Capitol’s leading everyman-aviator advocate, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), wants to further amend the list.
Long dreaded by the defense industry, a significant ramping down of war--related supplemental budgets has begun with the Obama administration’s outline of its fiscal 2015 request. The White House submitted a summary in late June—although not yet actual legislation—to lawmakers of its Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) budget for the year starting Oct. 1.
