Abstract
The Undersea Signal Processing team at the Office of Naval Research (ONR 321US) is tasked with developing advanced active/passive sonar signal and information processing technologies that improve the anti-submarine warfare (ASW) performance of US Navy sonar systems. Pursuant to this goal ONR supports academics whose research, being on the cutting edge, lead to high-risk technologies with potential for the greatest advancement of fleet capability. Dr. Lisa Zurk was such an academic, first supported by ONR 321US in 2005. Dr. Zurk’s research focused on developing signal and information processing algorithms which exploited the physics of the underwater operating environment. She believed the path to significant gains in sonar system performance would be obtained through exploitation of environmental knowledge. This belief is now a realization within the Naval Research Enterprise (NRE) and was a primary motivation for initiation of the ONR Task Force Ocean (TFO) Program in 2017. From establishment of the NEAR-Lab at Portland State University in 2005 until her transition to a Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in 2016, Dr. Zurk made significant contributions to the NRE. This presentation looks to highlight these past contributions and to consider their present impact.
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