David C. Richardson (admiral)

David Charles Richardson (April 8, 1914 – June 13, 2015) was a vice admiral in the United States Navy.

David C. Richardson
Born	(1914-04-08)April 8, 1914 Meridian, Mississippi, United States
Died	June 13, 2015(2015-06-13) (aged 101) San Diego, California, United States
Allegiance	United States
Branch	United States Navy
Years of service	1936–1972
Rank	Vice admiral
Commands	United States Sixth Fleet
Relations	6 children (1 deceased), 12 grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren

He was a 1936 graduate of the United States Naval Academy.^[1][2]

Post Academy Duty (1936-1945)

• USS Tennessee (BB-43)

Junior Officer (1936-1939)

• Naval Flight Training (1940)
• Fighter Squadron Five

Embarked Aboard

• USS Saratoga (CV-3) / USS Ranger (CV-4)
• USS Yorktown (CV-5) / USS Wasp (CV-7)
• Guadalcanal Campaign (1942)
• Tactical Aviation Training (Florida)
• Carrier Group Readiness Training (Hawaii)

Post World War Two

Abstract from Naval Institute Oral History Project

Source: David C. Richardson Naval Institute Oral History Project

OODA Feedback Loop Diagram

• Royal Navy Staff College (London)
• Naval War College

Helped write analysis of wartime battles ...

• Carrier Air Group13 (CVW-13)
• Embarked aboard USS Princeton (CV-37)

Helped plan for NATO military structure ...

• USS Badoeng Strait (CVE-116)

Executive Officer (XO) (1950-1953)

Post Korean War

• ComAirPac (OP-5)
• CinCSouth (Naples)

Deep Draft Command at Sea

Cimarron UNREPS Hornet two years before HORNET side-swiped CIM during SEP-1968 REFTRA Exercise

USS Cimarron (AO-22)

USS Hornet (CVS-12)

• OpNav (OP-06) (1961-1964)

Flag Officer Roles

• Commander Fleet Air Norfolk (1965-1966)
• Commander Task Force 77 (1966-1967)
• Assistant DCNO (Air) (1967-1968)
• Commander Sixth Fleet (1968-1970)
• Deputy CinCPacFlt (1970-1972)

US-DoD KM-Pyramid Adaptation

As Assistant DCNO (Air) (1967-1968), he sponsored adapting a DIKW pyramid to enable copiloting a JCS-WWMCCS Sea Surveillance System. He then became Commander of the United States Sixth Fleet (August 1968 – August 1970). This tour was notable for his role in creating the Ocean Surveillance Information System (OSIS) to help monitor Soviet naval operations.

Deputy Commander US Pacific Fleet (1970 - 1972)

He directed integration of an automated Sea Surveillance System for Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Naval Control and Protection of Shipping (NCAPS) into the World-Wide Command and Control System (WWMCCS).

Retired during 1972 but remained active in roles involving the US Naval Research Lab with SIMDIS. For example, see RSC-114 Class United States Navy torpedo retrievers. MarineTraffic is also an ASW-NCAPS derivative. (2007)

Also see: Global Command and Control System that replaced WWMCCS decision support system (1986).

Richardson died in 2015 at the age of 101.^[3] His wife, Jeanne M. McHugh (1923–2014), died after 59 years of marriage.

See also

• Bernard A. Clarey
• Homer A. McCrerey
• Group decision-making
• Information assurance
• Keyhole Markup Language
• Mission assurance
• Pacific Disaster Center
• Proceedings (magazine)
• SOSUS Underwater Surveillance System
• United States Naval Research Laboratory
• Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
• USS Liberty incident