{"id":17068,"date":"2025-12-27T17:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T09:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blue-origin-hires-united-launch-alliance-ceo-tory-bruno-to-head-its-national-security-group\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T17:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T09:18:11","slug":"blue-origin-hires-united-launch-alliance-ceo-tory-bruno-to-head-its-national-security-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blue-origin-hires-united-launch-alliance-ceo-tory-bruno-to-head-its-national-security-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin hires United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno to head its national security group"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1240\" height=\"966\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160413-bruno3-1-1240x966.jpg\" alt=\"Tory Bruno\" class=\"wp-image-243948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160413-bruno3-1-1240x966.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160413-bruno3-1-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160413-bruno3-1-630x491.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1240px) 100vw, 1240px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"wp-element-caption\">United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno, shown here at the Space Symposium in 2016, is joining Blue Origin. (GeekWire Photo \/ Alan Boyle)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Eleven years after United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno partnered with Blue Origin to create a new rocket engine, he\u2019s joining Jeff Bezos\u2019 space venture as the president of Blue Origin\u2019s newly created National Security Group.<\/p>\n<p>The move could signal a major shift in the commercial space race as Kent, Wash.-based Blue Origin revs up its competition with SpaceX. Bezos welcomed Bruno to his company on social media, and Bruno told Bezos that \u201cwe are going to do important work together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman added his congratulations via the X social-media platform.<\/p>\n<p>In Friday\u2019s announcement of the change, Blue Origin said Bruno would report to CEO Dave Limp. \u201cWe share a deep belief in supporting our nation with the best technology we can build,\u201d Limp said in a post on X. \u201cTory brings unmatched experience, and I\u2019m confident he\u2019ll accelerate our ability to deliver on that mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bruno, 64, led ULA for 11 years following a 30-year career at Lockheed Martin. Not long after taking the reins at ULA in 2014, Bruno sat beside Bezos to announce a close collaboration on the development of Blue Origin\u2019s BE-4 engine, which is used on ULA\u2019s Vulcan rocket as well as Blue Origin\u2019s orbital-class New Glenn rocket.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, SpaceX has displaced United Launch Alliance as America\u2019s dominant launch company. In 2014, ULA executed 14 launches while SpaceX executed six. So far this year, SpaceX has registered 165 launches, while ULA has registered six.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tory Bruno: World Space Week\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mBKVMtTphsA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"wp-element-caption\">In this video, published in November, Tory Bruno lays out his rocket philosophy as the honorary chair of World Space Week 2026.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bruno is expected to lead Blue Origin\u2019s efforts to win more contracts for national security launches using the New Glenn rocket. In 2024, Blue Origin joined ULA and SpaceX on the list of approved providers for such launches, but New Glenn has flown only twice. Blue Origin needs to execute two more successful launches to complete the Space Systems Command\u2019s certification process.<\/p>\n<p>United Launch Alliance is a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin. Last year, there were rumors that ULA was the subject of acquisition talks, perhaps involving Blue Origin or Sierra Space, but so far those rumors haven\u2019t panned out.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Lockheed Martin\u2019s Robert Lightfoot and Boeing\u2019s Kay Sears announced that Bruno was leaving ULA \u201cto pursue another opportunity\u201d \u2014 and named John Elbon as the joint venture\u2019s interim CEO. Elbon previously served as ULA\u2019s chief operating officer. He joined ULA in 2018 after a 35-year career at Boeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno, shown here at the Space Symposium in 2016, is joining Blue Origin. (GeekWire Photo \/ Alan Boyle) Eleven years after United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno partnered with Blue Origin to create a new rocket engine, he\u2019s joining Jeff Bezos\u2019 space venture as the president of Blue Origin\u2019s newly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[509,462,4396,875,363,750],"class_list":["post-17068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-blue-origin","tag-national-security","tag-tech-moves","tag-tory-bruno","tag-ula","tag-united-launch-alliance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}