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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JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
NASA is developing technologies to shrink its spacecraft to tiny sizes, enabling science missions to transition from use of a single spacecraft to huge fleets of interconnected micro-satellites. Several NASA centers are working on technologies such as autonomous operations, microsensors and compact, lower-power propulsion systems that are needed to build spacecraft as small as 1 kg. (2.2 lb.). Such tiny satellites could allow a single mission to conduct studies from different vantage points in space without increasing launch costs.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
Spectrum Astro, a small Arizona-based company with 270 employees, is taking on the likes of Boeing, Lockheed Martin and TRW in a bid to become a finalist to build a U.S. Air Force satellite network that will track ballistic missiles from low-Earth orbit. Northrop Grumman has signed up with Spectrum Astro to compete against a Lockheed Martin/Boeing/Aerojet team and a TRW/Raytheon team to build an estimated two dozen satellites for SBIRS-Low, the low-Earth orbit component of the Air Force's Space-Based Infrared missile warning system.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
Photograph: Alexander Lebed WIDE WORLD A high-ranking defector from Russia's GRU military intelligence service told a House panel he had scouted potential locations in the U.S. for Soviet agents to hide portable nuclear devices that could be activated in case of war. The former GRU colonel also charged that the former Soviet Union deployed tactical nuclear weapons in Cuba until the late-1980s without the knowledge of Cuban leader Fidel Castro.