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Tory Bruno Hops From ULA, Skips To Blue Origin

Frank Wolfe

Friday, December 26th, 2025

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Tory Bruno Hops From ULA, Skips To Blue Origin

Pictured is a U.S. Space Force photo on Aug. 28, 2023 of then ULA CEO Tory Bruno discussing the NROL-107 launch with then Space Force Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein, now a four-star general and the direct reporting manager for Golden Dome.

Tory Bruno is to be the new head of the national security division of Blue Origin, owned by Amazon [AMZN] billionaire Jeff Bezos and a top competitor to SpaceX in the launch business. For nearly 12 years, Bruno had been the CEO of United Launch Alliance (ULA), which announced his resignation on Monday. ULA is a Boeing [BA]-Lockheed Martin [LMT] joint venture that once dominated military launch with Atlas and Delta rockets but now faces the ascension of the significantly cheaper…

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