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
National Reconnaissance Office managers have dropped opposition to downsizing their spacecraft in the wake of a high-level panel's conclusion that future U.S. intelligence satellites should be dramatically smaller. Director of Central Intelligence John Deutch's advisory panel said the NRO should break up the multiple tasks performed by the agency's expensive, highly capable satellites. The tasks would be divided among larger numbers of spacecraft that would be smaller and less capable.

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The agency that procures U.S. intelligence satellites is studying an orbiting tethered satellite system designed to complement a tether experiment flown on the space shuttle earlier this year. The National Reconnaissance Office's (NRO) acknowledgment of its leading role in development of the Tether Physics and Survivability (TiPS) spacecraft is the first time in the agency's 35-year history that it has publicly revealed an ongoing space deployment.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
NASA and Boeing are moving to head off a potential delay in the first major U.S. element of the international space station, but Russia's commitment to deliver its hardware on time continues to appear far from iron-clad. Boeing, the lead U.S. station contractor, has begun building 16 struts that could be placed inside the station's two connector nodes to redistribute stress away from areas that failed to meet pressure test goals.