{"id":220660,"date":"2025-12-31T22:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/220660\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:37:08","slug":"former-united-launch-alliance-ceo-tory-bruno-joins-competitor-blue-origin-for-national-security-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/220660\/","title":{"rendered":"Former United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno joins competitor Blue Origin for national security projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s official: Tory Bruno, the longtime chief of the launch provider United Launch Alliance<\/a> (ULA) has joined the competition.<\/p>\n

Bruno, who led ULA for nearly 12 years and oversaw the development of that company’s new Vulcan rocket, has joined Blue Origin<\/a>, the private spaceflight company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos<\/a>. Bruno will oversee a newly formed National Security Group at Blue Origin, the company said on Dec. 26<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“Welcome to Blue Origin, Tory Bruno,” Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp wrote on social media during the announcement<\/a>. “We share a deep belief in supporting our nation with the best technology we can build. Tory brings unmatched experience, and I\u2019m confident he\u2019ll accelerate our ability to deliver on that mission.”<\/p>\n

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Bruno served as ULA president and CEO since 2014 and watched over the retirement of that company’s Delta family of rockets<\/a>. ULA is a collaborative project by Boeing and Lockheed Martin. Bruno also led the company as ULA developed its new Vulcan Centaur rocket<\/a>, which uses Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engines on its first stage and is designed to be the company’s new workhorse booster.<\/p>\n

At Blue Origin, Bruno will apparently oversee the company’s national security projects for its massive New Glenn rocket<\/a>. Blue Origin launched its first two New Glenn rockets in 2025, and successfully landed the first stage of the new booster<\/a> during a November mission that also launched NASA’s twin ESCAPADE Mars probes. The company aims to fly U.S. national security missions alongside flights for commercial and civilian government customers.<\/p>\n

“We are going to bring important, innovative, and urgently needed capabilities to our Nation,” Bruno wrote on social media<\/a>. “Can\u2019t wait to get started.”<\/p>\n

Jeff Bezos welcomed Bruno into the Blue Origin fold with a hearty post on social media.<\/p>\n

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“Welcome, Tory. Gradatim Ferociter!” Bezos wrote<\/a>, using Blue Origin’s Latin motto “Step by Step, Ferociously.”<\/p>\n

“Thanks, Jeff,” Bruno replied<\/a>. “We are going to do important work together.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s official: Tory Bruno, the longtime chief of the launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA) has joined the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-220660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}