Dr. Deborah Furey

Program Manager

Dr. Deborah Furey joined DARPA in September 2008 in the Strategic Technology Office. Her primary interests are in hydrodynamics, aerodynamics, unmanned systems and antisubmarine warfare.

Prior to coming to DARPA, she was a Senior Research Engineer in the Marine and Aviation Division of the Hydromechanics Department at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Carderock, Maryland. While there, she was lead on the hydrodynamic evaluation of boundary flows on small diameter towed arrays. She was the lead for the Unmanned Vehicles Office and the Naval Engineering Support Team sponsored by the Office of Naval Research for the AUVSI/ONR Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition. She supported several DARPA efforts including the Low Drag Hydrofoil and Laser AVIAN UAV effort. Further, Dr. Furey’s experience includes sea trial evaluations, scaled and full scale model testing, and data analysis for towed systems. She supported efforts for multi-lined towed array systems, submarine communication buoys, mine-counter-measure systems, and depressor studies.

Dr. Furey received both a BS and MS from Virginia Polytechnic and State University, in Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Science and Mechanics, respectively. She received her PhD from the University of Maryland in Mechanical Engineering.