David Charles Richardson (April 8, 1914 – June 13, 2015) was a

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in the

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. He was a 1936 graduate of the

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Post Academy Duty (1936-1945)

USS Tennessee (BB-43) USS ''Tennessee'' (BB-43) was the lead ship of the of dreadnought battleships built for the United States Navy in the 1910s. The ''Tennessee'' class was part of the standard-type battleship, standard series of twelve battleships built in the ...

:: Junior Officer (1936-1939) * Naval Flight Training (1940) * Fighter Squadron Five

Embarked Aboard

USS Saratoga (CV-3) USS ''Saratoga'' (CV-3) was a built for the United States Navy during the 1920s. Originally designed as a battlecruiser, she was converted into one of the Navy's first aircraft carriers during construction to comply with the Washington Naval ...

/ USS Ranger (CV-4) *

USS Yorktown (CV-5) USS ''Yorktown'' (CV-5) was an aircraft carrier that served in the United States Navy during World War II. Named after the Battle of Yorktown in 1781, she was commissioned in 1937. ''Yorktown'' was the lead ship of the , which was designed on ...

USS Wasp (CV-7) USS ''Wasp'' (CV-7) was a United States Navy aircraft carrier commissioned in 1940 and lost in action in 1942. She was the eighth ship named , and the sole ship of a class built to use up the remaining tonnage allowed to the U.S. for aircraft c ...

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(1942) * Tactical Aviation Training (Florida) * Carrier Group Readiness Training (Hawaii)

Post World War Two

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David C. Richardson

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* Royal Navy Staff College (London) *

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:: Helped write analysis of wartime battles ... * Carrier Air Group13 (CVW-13) * Embarked aboard USS Princeton (CV-37) :: Helped plan for

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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 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) KM Pyramid Adaptation

As Assistant DCNO (Air) (1967-1968), he sponsored adapting a

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to enable copiloting a JCS-

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''Sea Surveillance System''. He then became Commander of the

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(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

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(1970 - 1972) He directed integration of an automated Sea Surveillance System for

Anti-Submarine Warfare Anti-submarine warfare (ASW, or in the older form A/S) is a branch of underwater warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, submarines, or other platforms, to find, track, and deter, damage, or destroy enemy submarines. Such operations ar ...

(ASW) Naval Control and Protection of Shipping (NCAPS) into the World-Wide Command and Control System (

). 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 Global Command and Control System (GCCS) is the United States' armed forces DoD joint command and control (C2) system used to provide accurate, complete, and timely information for the operational command hierarchy, chain of command for U.S. armed ...

that replaced

decision support system A decision support system (DSS) is an information system that supports business or organizational decision-making activities. DSSs serve the management, operations and planning levels of an organization (usually mid and higher management) and ...

(1986). Richardson died in 2015 at the age of 101. His wife, Jeanne M. McHugh (1923–2014), died after 59 years of marriage.

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