Joe Anselmo

Editorial Director, Aviation Week Network

Washington, DC

Summary

Joe Anselmo has been Editorial Director of the Aviation Week Network and Editor-in-Chief of Aviation Week & Space Technology since 2013. Based in Washington, D.C., he directs a team of more than two dozen aerospace journalists across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Under his leadership, Aviation Week has won numerous accolades for its in-depth reporting and deep dives into aerospace technology, including the 2017 Grand Neal award for “Top Brand/Overall Editorial Excellence,” business-to-business journalism’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. Writers from the Aviation Week Network also took home six honors at the 2018 Aerospace Media Awards in London.

In 2015, Anselmo and his team spearheaded a digital initiative that provides subscribers with fresh content every day via mobile phones, tablets, or desktop computers. To mark Aviation Week’s 100th anniversary in 2016, the publication’s entire archive – more than 440,000 pages of articles, images, covers and advertisements – was digitized into a searchable online archive. Aviation Week also has accelerated its push into digital media with regular podcasts, videos, data features, infographics and eBooks.

Anselmo has more than 25 years of experience as an editor and reporter with Aviation Week, Congressional Quarterly and the Washington Post Company. He has won three Aerospace Journalist of the Year awards. A graduate of Ohio University, he was elected three times to the National Press Club’s Board of Governors, including one term as board chairman.

 

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Articles

By Joe Anselmo
Senate Judiciary Committee staffers want to know why ESTA, the U.S. electronic system for travel authorization that was rolled out last year to great fanfare by the Homeland Security Dept. (DHS), isn’t working better. The system allows citizens of countries in the U.S. Visa Waiver Program to be pre-screened for travel to the U.S. through a secure web site when they buy their tickets. Airlines also were supposed to be able to undertake pre-screening at check-in, but few carriers have the required bandwidth at their counters to access the system.

By Joe Anselmo
NASA is running out of plutonium-238, the nuclear-weapon byproduct it uses to generate electricity for spacecraft that venture beyond the range of solar energy, and the National Research Council thinks the U.S. government should restart production to enable deep-space exploration to continue. The Obama administration’s Fiscal 2010 budget request for the Energy Dept. includes $30 million to start reactivating reactors in Idaho and Tennessee to make the fuel for spacecraft radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs).

By Joe Anselmo
As Washington debates the merits of a split buy, EADS developers are proceeding with work on the Australian KC-30 tanker in a bid to address U.S. Air Force concerns about the A330-based aircraft. In July, the KC-30 is slated to refuel another aircraft using an EADS-designed boom system, which was long seen as a risk for its U.S. tanker proposal. And there’s another challenge. If EADS wins the contract, it plans to assemble both the tanker and A330-F freighters at a new facility in Mobile, Ala.