Background
Blanchard, David Lawrence was born on February 13, 1931 in Taulbee, Kentucky, United States. Son of Charles Lorraine and Gwyndolyn (Johnson) Blanchard.
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Blanchard, David Lawrence was born on February 13, 1931 in Taulbee, Kentucky, United States. Son of Charles Lorraine and Gwyndolyn (Johnson) Blanchard.
Bachelor of Arts in Religion, Indiana Wesleyan University, 1953. Master of Science in Physics, University Louisville, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Physics, Catholic University America, 1971.
Instructor, U. Louisville, l955-57;
instructor, Indiana Wesleyan University, l957-58;
researcher, Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Maryland., l958-64;
aerospace researcher, engineer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland., l964-7l;
supervisor, manager, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland., l97l-79;
senior executive, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland., l979-8l;
staff consultant, director research, Ford Aerospace Corporation, Houston and Detroit, l98l-84;
chief engineer, Ford Aerospace, Houston, l984-85;
director space systems engineering operations, Ford Aerospace, Seabrook, Maryland., l985-89;
executive director space programs, Ford Aerospace, Seabrook, Maryland., 1989-1990;
president, Loral AeroSys, Seabrook, Maryland., 1990-1996;
president, Lockheed Martin Space Mission Systems, 1996-1997;
founder, principal, COGENT, LLC., Kennewick, Washington, since 1997. National Aeronautics and Space Administration research fellow Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland, l974-75. Research advisor National Research Council, Greenbelt, Maryland., l979-80.
Member president's advisory county Indiana Wesleyan University, since 1998. Mentor for small start up businesses Dingman School Entrepreneurship, since 1997.
Chairman, charter member business and industry steering committee DuVal Aerospace Magnet School, Prince Georges County Schools Seabrook, 1989-1992, member business and industry advisory committee on science and technical, 1989-1991. Charter member board Opportunity Skyway, 1990-1997. Trustee, chairman finance committee Houghton College, New York, 1987-1996, trustee, 1997-2004, general chairman $45 million capital campaign, 1999-2004.
Charter member, board trustees Maryland Space Business Roundtable, 1989-1997, president, 1991-1993. Board visitors University Maryland University College, 1994-2001, University Maryland Foundation, 1996-2001. Charter member, board trustees World Hope International, since 1996.
Board directors Willard J. Houghton Foundation, 1987-2004, chair board, 1997-2004. Board advisors Nanticoke Homes, 2000-2002, Innovative Concepts, Inc., 1999—2005. Chair president advisory council excellence Indiana Wesleyan University, since 2000.
With United States Army and United States Army Reserve, 1957-1964. Fellow Washington Academy of Sciences, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (associate). Member Sigma Xi, Sigma Pi Sigma.
Married Allene Irma Horne, June 28, 1958. Children: Leslie Ruth, David Lawrence Junior.