{"id":474276,"date":"2025-12-27T04:41:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T04:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/474276\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T04:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T04:41:20","slug":"former-ula-president-and-ceo-tory-bruno-joins-blue-origin-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/474276\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ULA president and CEO Tory Bruno joins Blue Origin \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"ULA President and CEO Tory Bruno participated in a fireside chat with Michael Dickey, director of the Force Design Integration Office at the U.S. Space Force\u2019s Space Warfighting Analysis Center. The conversation happened on the final day of the Space Force Association\u2019s Spacepower Conference on Dec. 12, 2024. Image: Will Robinson-Smith\/Spaceflight Now<\/p>\n

Blue Origin announced on Friday that Tory Bruno, who left United Launch Alliance four days ago, would head the company\u2019s newly formed National Security Group.<\/p>\n

\u201cTory Bruno is joining Blue Origin as president, National Security, reporting to CEO Dave Limp,\u201d Blue Origin posted on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cWelcome to Blue Origin, [Tory Bruno].\u00a0We share a deep belief in supporting our nation with the best technology we can build,\u201d Limp wrote in a separate social media post. \u201cTory brings unmatched experience, and I\u2019m confident he\u2019ll accelerate our ability to deliver on that mission. Glad to have you with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to Bruno\u2019s work at ULA, which saw the launches of numerous government satellites to a variety of orbits, he previously worked for decades at Lockheed Martin, where he had a hand in a number of weapons systems, like the Air Force\u2019s Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Reentry Systems, the Navy\u2019s Trident 2 D5 Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) and the Missile Defense Agency\u2019s Terminal High Area Altitude Defense (THAAD).<\/p>\n

Bruno was President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of United Launch Alliance for more than a decade. He led the company through the transition from Atlas and Delta rockets to the Vulcan rocket, which has a first-stage powered by Blue Origin\u2019s BE-4 engines.<\/p>\n

That launch vehicle made its debut in January 2024, completed two certification flights and was approved by the U.S. Space Force to launch national security payloads. The first of those payloads, the USSF-106 mission, launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Aug. 12, 2025.<\/p>\n

\"\"United Launch Alliance\u2019s Vulcan rocket roared off the pad at Space Launch Complex 41 to begin the USSF-106 mission for the U.S. Space Force. This was the first national security launch using a Vulcan rocket and the 101st national security mission for ULA. Image: Michael Cain\/Spaceflight Now<\/p>\n

\u201cI came to ULA to save it from closing back in 2017, field Vulcan, and put it on a solid path. Did that. My Duty was complete,\u201d Bruno wrote in a Dec. 26 social media post. \u201cThere is a new set of national security capabilities that need to be created ASAP. Blue is the best place for me to serve that mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bruno\u2019s transition comes as Blue Origin is finding its footing on the orbital launch front. It\u2019s heavy lift rocket, New Glenn, launched its first two missions successfully in 2025 and managed to land one of its boosters on its recovery vessel, \u2018Jacklyn.\u2019<\/p>\n

Blue Origin is one of three companies, alongside ULA and SpaceX, that was recognized by the Space Force to be allowed to launch its most valuable and sensitive satellites. The contract, which is officially called National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 2, was announced in April 2025, with seven missions planned for assignment to Blue Origin (though no specific missions have been awarded as of yet).<\/p>\n

The company, founded by billionaire and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, opted for a certification path that will require Blue Origin to launch four successful flights with New Glenn, followed by a thorough data review by the government.<\/p>\n

\"\"Rob Meyerson, Blue Origin\u2019s president, presents a photo of the BE-4 engine being mounted on a test stand in West Texas during remarks at the 33rd Space Symposium on April 5, 2017. Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/p>\n

Bruno\u2019s relationship with Blue Origin started in September 2014 when ULA picked Blue Origin\u2019s BE-4 engines to power the Vulcan rocket, which at the time was scheduled to debut in 2019. As history played out, Blue Origin didn\u2019t deliver the first flight engines to ULA until October 2022 and the first flight of Vulcan was delayed until January 2024.<\/p>\n

Time will tell what types of government-focused initiatives Bruno will bring to Blue Origin as it looks to flex its muscles as it competes for more of the billions of dollars of national security contracts in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ULA President and CEO Tory Bruno participated in a fireside chat with Michael Dickey, director of the Force…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":474277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[159,783,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-474276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115789699126396037","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}