M.S. Engineering Management, University of Alaska, 1984

B.S. Aeronautics, Embry Riddle University, l978

Graduate, Defense Systems Management College, 1981

Graduate, U.S.C. Aerospace Safety and Management School, 1971

LTC (R) Boschma maintains expertise in design and analysis of advanced ballistic missile interceptors and interceptor systems, exoatmospheric interactive discrimination, high-altitude long-endurance unmanned air vehicles, aircraft propulsion, and applications of emerging technology to defense needs. He specializes in the identification and analysis of emerging robotic vehicle concepts with emphasis in lighter-than-air platforms. He is a national leader in the development and testing of remotely piloted and robotic lighter-than-air vehicles. He is a research pilot and aviation safety manager.

March 1, 2002 – Present: Information Systems Laboratories, Inc., Vice President and Division Manager of BOSCH Aerospace Division.

January 1, 1995 – February 28, 2002: BOSCH Aerospace, Inc., Technical Director, Headquarters, Huntsville, Alabama. Responsibilities include technical management of corporate research, development and operations. He managed the corporate development of the U.S. Army SASS LITE class of unmanned airships, served as the Principal Investigator on the U.S. Navy Lighter-Than-Air Optical Platform Study, was the Principal Investigator for USAF High Modulus Carbons for Space Vehicle Cooling, was the Task Manager for the DARPA Small, Low-cost Interceptor Device (SLID) program, is currently the Principal Investigator on the US Navy Cycloidal Propulsion Phase II program, and the Principle Concept Developer on the US Navy Sea-based Aerostat Information Link Aerostat. Additional duties include Chief Pilot of BOSCH Aerospace research flight operations, marketing and technical proposal preparation.

October 1988-January 1, 1995: Applied Research Associates, Inc., Division Manager of the Space and Defense Technologies Division, Huntsville, Alabama. He managed the development of an aerodynamic missile nose cone, and subsequent computational fluid dynamic studies to minimize aero-thermal effects on infrared seeker windows at extreme Mach number flight. He managed the "Directed Gamma Radiation" contract for DARPA, a weapons concept he authored. He conducted test design, test data collection, and failure analysis in the test and evaluation of the "HILINE" stratospheric unmanned air vehicle (UAV). He developed and executed a remotely piloted airship pilot training program, directed field-testing of a robotic airship as an instrument platform for use in data collection on Smart and Brilliant munitions. Mr. Boschma devised a large-scale Hurricane-force wind tunnel and supported the Department of Energy in assessing Soviet-developed propulsion equipment that that might apply.

1986-1988: Deputy Director, Advanced Technology Directorate, U.S. Army Strategic Defense Command, Redstone Arsenal (RSA), Alabama. Analysis of U.S. and Soviet strategic defense, anti-satellite and conventional air defense programs. Identified defense deficiencies, defined and analyzed weapon concepts to enhance U.S. and Allied defenses. Managed development and construction of hardware, contractor-conducted analysis, and reported findings to scientific community. Conceived and conducted feasibility and trade studies of the Optimized Longitudinal Guidance Algorithm (OLGA) theater missile interceptor.

1984-1986: Chief, Braduskill Interceptor Concept (BIC) Task Force, U.S. Army Strategic Defense Command, RSA, Alabama, where he conceived and completed concept development on his BIC concept. Directed and managed BIC project office to include concept definition, test program development, development of RFPs, management of contracts, definition of advanced exoatmospheric discrimination techniques, and planned and managed elements of supporting experiments (i.e., D181, SEER, DELPHI, BIC LETHALITY).

1983-1984: Research and Development Coordinator for Systems Engineering Division, U.S. Army Strategic Defense Command, RSA, Alabama. Supported contract management of the Sentry Missile Program. Authored and initiated the development cycle for an advanced missile concept for strategic defense needs.

1982-1983: Chief, Instrumentation Division, U.S. Army Cold Regions Test Center, Ft. Greely, Alaska. Managed and directed a 32-person group to provide multi-discipline instrumentation, automated data collection, data analysis, and test planning to the Cold Regions Test Center. Activities were carried out in temperature extremes to -65o F. Graduated U.S. Army Command and General Staff College by correspondence in 1983.

1981-1982: Chief, General Equipment Test Division, Ft. Greely, Alaska. Managed and directed military developmental testing under arctic conditions of various military hardware systems including chemical and biological warfare protection and detection systems, vehicle systems, clothing items, mine warfare systems, and over-snow mobility systems. Defined new concept for laboratory tests of cold weather clothing. Invented and successfully demonstrated advanced test devices to validate the test concept.

1980-1981: Chief, Avionics Integration Division, U.S. Army Navigation and Communication Project Office, Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey. Managed and directed civilian work force involved in development of hardware integration kits for inclusion of emerging electronics and EW countermeasure systems into existing Army aircraft. Activities included actual hardware installation, training of military personnel as installers, and development of modification procedure documentation. In 1981, graduated from the Defense Systems Management College at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia.

1978-1980: Research and Development Coordinator, Air Traffic Management Branch, U.S. Army Avionics Research and Development Activity, Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey. Managed and directed government and contractor research into helicopter microwave landing systems, secondary radar systems, aircraft collision avoidance systems, and covert data transmission concepts. Acted as the division’s Chief Test Pilot in support of the following systems; Navy Pelvis and Leg Elevated Seat Experiments (PALE) Program for advanced fighter aircraft, and joint programs in Terrain Matching Radar systems for low-level navigation. Conducted extensive test/reporting of moving target identification systems against low-altitude targets, and advanced developmental test of Very Lightweight Air Traffic Management Equipment (VLATME) in the U.S. and Europe.

1972-1978: Test Officer on operational test of Mechanized Infantry Combat Vehicle (MICV), Platform Instructor, operational fixed-and rotary-wing pilot, Aviation Safety Officer, U.S. Army Armor Center, Ft. Knox, Kentucky. Duties included human factors testing, hardware suitability testing, target scoring; and RAM data collection, analysis, and reporting.

1965-1972: U.S. Army Pilot and Ground Cavalry Troop Commander. Two operational combat aviation tours in Vietnam. Commanded "K" and "L" troops, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Ft. Lewis, Washington. In 1971, graduated Aerospace Safety and Management School at University of Southern California (USC).

Member and Past Committee Chairman of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Technical Committee for Light-Than-Air, Member and Past Vice Chairman of Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems Pathfinder Chapter, Member Association of Old Crows, Member Army Aviation Association of America, Member Association of the United States Army.

Herman Oberth Award for Outstanding Individual Scientific Achievement (1997). This award presented annually since 1959 by the AIAA was presented to Mr. Boschma for advancing the state-of-the-art in aeronautical sciences. It has previously been presented to Dr. Werner Van Braun, MG Maderis, MG Toftoy, and 32 other outstanding American scientists. Legion of Merit, Air Medal (31 awards), Meritorious Service Medal, Campaign Medals, Army Commendation Medal (2), Unit Citation, Master Army Aviation Badge, and Purple Heart.

Gibbens, R and Boschma, J.H., "Airship Control is the Key to Profitability" 3^rd International Airship Convention and Exhibition, 5 July 2000, Friedrichshaven, Germany.

Boschma, J.H., "Smart Top Attack Weapons," ARMOR Magazine, September-October 1996 issue, PB 17-96-5.

Boschma, J.H., "Roles and Missions for Unmanned Blimps," American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 11th Lighter-Than-Air Systems Technology Conference Publication, #AIAA-95-1605, Clearwater, Florida, 16 May 1995.

Boschma, J.H., "The Evolution of the Convertible Unmanned Airship, SASS LITE," published in the Proceedings of the LTA 2000 International Symposium organized by AERALL, 19-20 October 1994, Toulouse France.

Boschma, J.H., "An Update on the Development Progress of the U.S. Army's SASS LITE, Unmanned Robot Airship," Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems, 20th Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition Proceedings Manual, Washington, DC, 30 June 1993.

Boschma, J.H., R. Allen Spencer and R. Bruce Miller, "Directed Gamma Radiation Beam: Final Report," Contract #DASG60-90-0102, 22 Feb 1991.

Boschma, J.H., "Betatron-Soft Kill of Fielded Weapons," Army Contract #DAAH-01-89-C-0512, U.S. Army Missile Command, 28 Mar 1990.

Boschma, J.H., "Project Eagle Eye, A UAV for Theater Missile Defense," Unmanned Systems Magazine, Volume 7, Number 1, Winter 1988-89.

Boschma, J.H. and A.H. Shaaban, et al, Final Report "Assessment of the Interaction of Momentum-Rich Beam with Potential Targets," Army Contract DASG60-88-C-0122; Sponsored by SDIO, Managed by USASDC.

Lukins, D. and J.H. Boschma, "Advanced Concepts for Midcourse Data Fusion," 2nd National Symposium on Sensors and Sensor Fusion, OSDRDT+E, 27 Mar l989.

Buckley, A.P., W.T. Naff and J.H. Boschma, "OLGA Interceptor Concept Evaluation," National Symposium for Guidance and Control, Fall, 1988.

Boschma, J.H., "Forward Based Midcourse Interceptor Technology (Braduskill)," Journal of Defense Research #DR87071 (602) (Classified SECRET, NOFORN), Fall, 1987.

Boschma, J.H., "Braduskill Interrogator Concept Geometry Advantages for Active, Passive and Interactive Discrimination," Proceedings of the IRIS Specialty Group on Active Sensor Systems, Orlando, Florida, 20 October 1987.

Boschma, J.H., "RPV Applications to Strategic Defense," Annual High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Aircraft Symposium, Menlo Park, California, January 1987.

Boschma, J.H. and I. Spears, "Methodology Improvement Program, Final Report, Insulative Properties of Cold Weather Clothing," U.S. Army Cold Regions Test Center, 1984.

Boschma, J.H. and P.D. Demco, "Advances in Decelerating Steep Approach and Landing for Helicopter Instrument Approaches," Minutes of the American Helicopter Society, 35th National Forum, May 1979.

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