John D. Boldt

John Boldt received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from South Dakota State University in 1982. He has been with the Applied Physics Laboratory since that time and is currently the Assistant Group Supervisor of the Space Science Instrument Group. He performed a variety of roles including power systems lead engineer and mission operations lead engineer prior to focusing on science instrument development. He has designed flight hardware for a number of missions including Cassini, NEAR, MESSENGER, MRO and New Horizons and is the payload systems engineer for the current JEO mission study.