He has contributed to several advanced satellite communication system designs, developing digital beamforming algorithms, efficient receiver architectures, and novel modulation formats.

Boroson coordinated the integration and test planning for the Laser Intersatellite Transmission Experiment and served as team leader for the development of the next several generations of optical space terminals. He was the lead engineer and associate manager for the GeoLITE program, coordinating the creation of the complete system architecture and collaborating on the design of subsystems in this space-to-ground laser communication (lasercom) system, which, in 2001, became the world’s first successful space-based, high-rate lasercom system.