Robert C. Williamson

Williamson, Morgan The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC), a not-for-profit international association, named retired Rear Adm. Robert C. Williamson, U.S. Navy, its chairperson for the next year. He succeeds retired Lt. Gen. Harry D ...

Williamson, Morgan The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC), a not-for-profit international association, named retired Rear Adm.Robert C. Williamson, U.S. Navy, its chairperson for the next year.He succeeds retired Lt.Gen.

Robert C. Williamson, U.S. Navy, its chairperson for the next year. He succeeds retired Lt. Gen.
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Williamson, who is vice president of international programs for Raytheon Network Centric Systems in London, is the consortium's first chairperson to be based in Europe. During his military career, Williamson was senior military advisor to the U.S. Secretary of the Navy and served as the Navy's military deputy assistant secretary of research, development and acquisition.

Retired Lt. Col.

Robert had joined the Navy in January 1944, then spent five months training and performing escort duties.

At the start of June, the ship left the Clyde, with the teenage coder unaware his first active service would be the liberation of France.

It was only when they were well on their way that the captain revealed the invasion plans.

He said: 'Going across the Channel on June 5 was a fantastic sight.The air was bristling with excitement.'

The Argonaut was a mile from the shore when the shell hit it.

Robert, who became a civil servant after the war, said: 'It went through one of the officer's cabins and out of the hull before exploding in the sea.