Allan O. Steinhardt has been an active member of the Department of Defense research community while holding various academic, government, and defense laboratory positions. He received a Ph.D. degree (1983) from the University of Colorado, Boulder in Electrical Engineering. From 1984 to 1987 and 1993 to 1996 he was a member of the technical staff at the Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1987 to 1993, he was on the faculty at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. In 1996 he joined the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He is currently DARPA chief scientist for signal processing, and is responsible for developing sensor programs for the newly established Information Exploitation Office (IXO). He has published papers widely, ranging over numerical analysis, embedded processing, radar, and adaptive signal processing. His program management is eclectic, including underwater acoustics, space based radar, embedded processing, bistatics, change detection, tracking, novel sensing devices, wideband SAR, and deep ocean sensing, totally over $100M in direct contracting. Dr. Steinhardt received the 1986 IEEE Signal Processing Society Paper Award and the 1990 Best Professor Award from the Cornell student chapter of the IEEE. In 1998, he received the outstanding achievement award from the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense. He is the coauthor with Simon Haykin of "Adaptive Radar Detection," Wiley, 1991.