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DIRECTED ENERGY
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY
2003 Directed Energy Test & Evaluation Conference
Short Course Instructors
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19 August 2003 |
Albuquerque, New Mexico | |
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Brief biographies of the instructors for the Tutorials offered in conjunction with the
Directed Energy Test & Evaluaton Conference are provided here.
Denny Boesen
Denny Boesen is the Program Manager for the Airborne Laser (ABL) Advisory and Assistance Services
(A&AS) contract and Technical Director for the Northrop Grumman Information Technology (IT) Sector’s
Advanced Technology Division, Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Division provides imaging systems and
laser systems technology development expertise to numerous Department of Defense (DoD) customers.
During his 22 years of Air Force active duty, Mr. Boesen was an instructor and combat pilot and an
engineer and manager in high-energy laser programs. He helped develop basic pointing and tracking
concepts for orbital mirrors to control ground-based laser beams, wrote early program plans for the
Strategic Defense Initiative Organization in Sensors and Kinetic Energy Weapons, and he co-developed
the Scanned Active Tracker concept for control of a phased array laser weapon concept. Mr. Boesen
directed the development, testing and operation of major systems in the Air Force’s Airborne Laser
Laboratory, and he was the program Technical Director during the lethality demonstrations. Mr.
Boesen developed the Conical Scan/Active Focus concept for precision high-energy laser beam control,
for which he shared the Air Force Scientific Achievement Award. Mr. Boesen has performed system
engineering, and concept development, for the Airborne Laser, Airborne Laser Experiment, Airborne
Laser Extended Atmospheric Characterization Experiment, ALTAIR space experiment program, Ground-Based
Laser, and space object Laser Detection and Ranging. He was Chief Scientist and Payload Specialist
for the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization’s Starlab experiment.
Kyle J. Hendricks
Dr. Kyle J. Hendricks is currently Group Leader of the Narrowband High Power Microwave (HPM)
Sources Group at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). This group is responsible for experimental
development of HPM Sources, which includes work on pulsed power systems, vacuum diodes, electron
beams, HPM antennae, microwave transmission, diagnostic development, and supporting HPM effects
testing. Dr. Hendricks received his Bachelor of Science (B.S.) and Master of Science (M.S.) degrees
in Physics, from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa in 1980 and 1982, respectively. He received
his Doctoral (Ph.D.) degree in Physics, from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM in 1989.
In 1988, Dr. Hendricks received the United States Air Force (USAF) Research and Development Award,
and he was a co-recipient of the 2001 Directed Energy Giller Award and the 2001 USAF Science and
Engineering Award. Dr. Hendricks has published numerous open literature articles on HPM Sources and
Antennae, and he has also published many AFRL reports on HPM sources, components, and diagnostic/calibration
techniques. Dr. Hendricks is currently the AFRL point-of-contact for the planned Narrowband HPM Lab,
proposed for Government Fiscal Year (GFY) 07.
Rick Graber
Rick Graber is the Business Development Manager for the Northrop Grumman Information Technology
(IT) Sector’s Advanced Technology Division, Albuquerque, New Mexico. The division specializes in
providing imaging systems and laser systems technology development expertise to numerous Department
of Defense (DoD) customers. Mr. Graber is a retired Air Force colonel with a Bachelor of Science
degree in mathematics from Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. During his 26 years of Air Force
active duty, he served as a flight examiner, instructor and electronic warfare officer, accumulating
more than 2,000 flight hours, primarily in the F-105G and F-4G Wild Weasel aircraft. He spent more
than six years working for Project CHECKMATE and for the Assistant Chief of Staff for Studies and
Analyses, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force, and was a joint staff officer, a fighter aircraft maintenance
squadron commander and a Wild Weasel squadron operations officer. Graber also spent more than five
years with the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center (AFOTEC) in positions including
electronic warfare division chief and deputy director and director, AFOTEC Weapon Systems Directorate.
As the AFOTEC Weapon Systems director, he guided operational test and evaluation planning, execution
and reporting for 75 military programs whose purchase costs exceeded $200 billion. Fifteen of these
programs had Congressional oversight.
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