Corporate Executives
J.M. (Jim) Oschmann
Vice President and General Manager
Antenna & Video Technologies
Jim Oschmann is Vice President and General Manager of the Antenna & Video Technologies strategic business unit for Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Jim is in charge of acquisition and execution of programs that apply antenna, radio frequency and video technologies for our nation’s tactical defense needs.
Jim has held several key leadership positions at Ball Aerospace. Most recently, he served as the director of Program Execution for the Advanced Technologies & products business area.
Prior to joining Ball Aerospace in July of 2004, Jim served in technical and managerial positions across industry and the science community, including leadership positions at the Gemini Observatory and the National Solar Observatory. Earlier in his career, he worked in the aerospace industry at Sensis Corporation, Hughes Aircraft and TRW.
Jim is from Rochester, NY and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Optics from the University of Rochester and a Master’s degree in Optical Sciences and Business Administration from the University of Arizona.
Jim is the chairman of the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers conference on Optical, Infrared and Millimeter Space Telescopes and has previously chaired the Astronomy Symposium and two ground-based telescope conferences. He serves on various National Science Foundation review and advisory boards for ground-based astronomy. Jim also holds two patents on bar code technology and has over 20 publications.
