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

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
Hughes is proceeding with work on a $1.4-billion contract to build a mobile satellite system for a commercial spinoff by Inmarsat--despite rumblings from TRW that the medium-Earth orbit constellation may violate two U.S. patents it received for a competing system. ICO Global Communications, formerly Inmarsat-P, scoffs at TRW's claim that the patents for its Odyssey system essentially block commercially viable competitors from placing their satellites in medium-Earth orbit (Meo), which TRW defines as altitudes of roughly 10,000-18,000 km.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
The House and Senate Intelligence committees are at an impasse over a House plan to order the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to begin construction of a small satellite to demonstrate emerging technologies. The issue pits those who believe the NRO should follow NASA's example of moving toward smaller and cheaper satellites against the intelligence community and its traditional suppliers, who want to take several more years to prove smallsat technologies.

Joseph C. Anselmo
Lockheed Martin's decision to consolidate its satellite manufacturing operations was made with the aim of maximizing efficiencies by manufacturing commercial, civil and military satellites in the same set of facilities. But the company also faces a major hurdle in meeting that goal: It must prove that it can seamlessly shift production of satellites across the nation while maintaining its position in the fiercely competitive commercial satellite market.