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.
Shareholders and analysts are viewing major aluminum producer Alcoa’s $2.85 billion acquisition deal to buy the parent company of Firth Rixson, a leading provider of rings and forgings for aircraft engines, as positive not just for those companies, but even rival Precision Castparts. “Alcoa’s bullish prognosis on the aerospace outlook, particularly in engine parts, has a direct read-across to Precision Castparts’s competing businesses
