Tory Bruno resigns as CEO of United Launch Alliance
According a brief announcement today from Robert Lightfoot (ULA Lockheed Martin Board Chair) and Kay Sears (ULA Boeing Board Chair), Tory Bruno has resigned as CEO and president of United Launch Alliance, effective immediately.
After nearly 12 years leading United Launch Alliance (ULA), current ULA President and CEO Tory Bruno has resigned to pursue another opportunity.
We are grateful for Tory’s service to ULA and the country, and we thank him for his leadership.
Effective immediately, John Elbon is named as the Interim CEO. We have the greatest confidence in John to continue strengthening ULA’s momentum while the board proceeds with finding the next leader of ULA. Together with Mark Peller, the new COO, John’s career in aerospace and his launch expertise is an asset for ULA and its customers, especially for achieving key upcoming Vulcan milestones.
No further information was provided.
The timing is intriguing, as after a decade of effort, Bruno was about to get ULA’s new Vulcan rocket launching on a regular basis. I could speculate, but at the moment there isn’t enough information to make even a good guess.
Hat tip to reader Gary.
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According a brief announcement today from Robert Lightfoot (ULA Lockheed Martin Board Chair) and Kay Sears (ULA Boeing Board Chair), Tory Bruno has resigned as CEO and president of United Launch Alliance, effective immediately.
After nearly 12 years leading United Launch Alliance (ULA), current ULA President and CEO Tory Bruno has resigned to pursue another opportunity.
We are grateful for Tory’s service to ULA and the country, and we thank him for his leadership.
Effective immediately, John Elbon is named as the Interim CEO. We have the greatest confidence in John to continue strengthening ULA’s momentum while the board proceeds with finding the next leader of ULA. Together with Mark Peller, the new COO, John’s career in aerospace and his launch expertise is an asset for ULA and its customers, especially for achieving key upcoming Vulcan milestones.
No further information was provided.
The timing is intriguing, as after a decade of effort, Bruno was about to get ULA’s new Vulcan rocket launching on a regular basis. I could speculate, but at the moment there isn’t enough information to make even a good guess.
Hat tip to reader Gary.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Gotta admit I didn’t see that coming. At least not this soon. I wonder what that “another opportunity” is. Be a heckuva note if it was to take over Kathy Lueders’s old job as Starbase boss, but I guess we’ll know, whatever it turns out to be, fairly soon. All the details, I suppose, will have to await the publication of Tory’s memoirs.
Possibly retirement, he is 64?
I see him serving on many company boards of directors.
The rat left the sinking ship I see.
In earlier times, the captain stayed behind to see that others lived…but that was before naval thinking gave way to asking about parachute colors.
Vulcan should have been Pyrios. Dynetics hungered to get F-1s flying and would have worked for peanuts. J-2 upper stage. But noooo.
Tory will get his gold watch while workers show up and emptying food banks.
Jeff Wright,
Absent Tory, the “ship” that is ULA would have foundered long ago. Had its first CEO, Michael Gass, stuck around, there would have been no Vulcan and ULA would have been a tombstone sometime during the first Trump administration. The people Bruno is “leaving behind” would have been in the water years ago otherwise. They should all be grateful to him for an additional several years of paychecks. And those paychecks will likely continue at least until ULA has worked off its contracted backlog – five more years maybe.
Vulcan couldn’t have been Pyrios as ULA doesn’t own the IP for it. That would be Dynetics, now part of Leidos – and also AJR. I think the degree to which Dynetics would not have “worked for peanuts” is evidenced by the $10 billion bid it made for its problematical lunar lander design.
Pyrios would also have depended upon AJR being able to conjure up an improved version of F-1 after having destroyed all of the original tooling. Good luck with that. Given what AJR is charging for recreations of the RS-25, the mind fairly boggles at what a Pyrios would have cost per unit.
The Angry Rabbit is a good design, and the mass issues there less troublling that those of beached whale Starship.
The problem with fast iterating Starship is that it is left more schizoid than Portland’s youth…is is a Mars lander…a Moon lander?
Stay tuned–next week it will identify with another pronoun, just like Elon’s other troubled spawn.
Both signs of a disorganized house with no discipline–same as Reiner’s.
Jeff, I think your posts have finally caused my face to fix in a permanently puzzled and bemused expression. :)
The Angry Rabbit was too porky by a non-trivial amount. And pretty small for its $10 billion asking price.
HLS Starship has no mass issues. Given that it will land on its tail rather than lengthwise, the “beached whale” honorific doesn’t work. “Ballerina whale” perhaps? Definitely a whale, though. And capable of swallowing Jonah, his entire family and all of their baggage and then spitting them out again on the lunar surface.
What is Starship? It’s going to be the deep space equivalent of a Swiss Army Knife.
To Patrick
My only role is as comic relief to the universe
At least this week it has been warm here.