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Edward C. Gough, Jr., Chief Scientist of NURC
Edward C. Gough joined the NURC in May 2011 as Chief Scientist and Chief Technology Officer. He provides technical and scientific direction in the performance of NURC's mission of planning, managing, and executing naval science and technology research for NATO. He works closely with NURC's Director, Deputy Director, and the NATO Scientific Committee of National Representatives in the identification, prioritization, and support of science and technology development.
Mr. Gough was the Deputy Commander and Technical Director of the US Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command from 2003-2011 where, as a member of the federal Senior Executive Service, he led the transformation of the Naval Oceanography program under four flag commanders into a dynamic information supply chain providing data-to-decision to implement the Commander's Battlespace on Demand vision with the ambition of becoming the best managed Echelon III in the Navy.
From 1989-2003 Mr. Gough led applied research at the University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), and also held a variety of assignments to the U.S. Government, including Science Advisor to the Commander of United States Pacific Command from 2002-2003, where he coordinated an international program focused on speed-to-capability for science and technology that featured over a dozen Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration projects; Technical Director of the Anti Submarine Warfare Assessment and Requirements Division, for Chief of Naval Operations from 1996-1998, where he prepared the technical assessment for a report to Congress; and Science Advisor to the Commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet aboard USS Belknap and USS LaSalle from 1993-1995. At APL Mr. Gough led two departments: Environmental Systems, and Signals and Systems, and conducted research in Arctic environmental acoustics, tactical implications of oceanographic variability, and adaptive sonar.
From 1977-1989 Mr. Gough was a Principal Scientist at Planning Systems Incorporated (PSI), where his work focused on submarine sonar systems engineering, especially issues of calibration and self noise measurements, environmental acoustics, and the sonar performance implications of oceanographic variability. Mr. Gough participated in fieldwork at several Arctic Ice Camps, and led successful expeditions to establish and occupy isolated acoustic observatories in the Arctic.
Mr. Gough holds the Master Applied Mathematics degree from the University of Virginia, and a Bachelor of Science in Ocean Engineering (Honors) from Florida Atlantic University, where he was a Cooperative Education Student with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Smithsonian Institution at Harbor Branch.
Mr. Gough is a Senior Member of IEEE, member of the Administrative Committee of the Ocean Engineering Society, and co-chair of the Numerical Modeling, Simulation, and Data Visualization Technical Committee. He is a Charter Life Member of the Oceanography Society. Mr. Gough's honors include the Superior Public Service awarded by the Chief of Naval Operations in 1998, and the Arctic Service Ribbon.