This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a novel compressed sensing acoustic vector sensor array architecture to estimate the direction of arrival of acoustic sources using fewer sensors. The system utilizes an acoustic vector sensor array installed on the ocean floor that requires one-third the number of sensors compared to a traditional pressure sensor array, while achieving the same localization performance. However, the number of data channels, signal conditioning hardware, transmission data rate, and size of the spatial correlation matrix are not reduced. The document introduces the acoustic vector sensor array data model and discusses how compressive sampling techniques can be applied to further reduce the complexity and cost of the system by acquiring signals below the Nyquist rate and reconstructing them from random projections.