David Folk Baucom | |
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Born | Blythewood, South Carolina | March 7, 1959
Allegiance | ![]() |
Service | United States Navy |
Years of service | 1980s-2016 |
Rank | Rear Admiral |
Awards | Legion of Merit (3) Defense Superior Service Medal (2) |
David Folk Baucom (born 7 March 1959) is a retired United States Navy Rear Admiral. Among Baucom's military roles were White House military aide to the president, [1] director of the US Central Command Deployment and Distribution Operations Center in Kuwait, commander of Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, [2] commander of Fleet & Industrial Supply Center in Norfolk, Virginia, [1] and strategy and policy director of the US Transportation Command. [3] Baucom is currently senior director at Vintun LLC. [4]
David Baucom was born in 1959 to Horace Clifford Baucom, Jr. and Rosalind Windhorn Baucom. [5] A native of Blythewood, South Carolina, [1] [3] [5] Baucom and his two brothers would all later join the United States Navy. [5] Studying personnel and industrial management, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in industrial management from Auburn University in 1981, where he was commissioned into the Navy through the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps program. [1]
Later he received executive education degrees from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and the University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler Business School. His first master's degree in acquisition and contract management was from the Naval Postgraduate School, while his second [3] in national resource strategy [6] was from the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy at the National Defense University. [3] He is also a Lean Six Sigma green belt. [3]
Early in his military career, Baucom's ship assignments included supply officer of the USS Edward McDonnell, stock control officer of the USS Theodore Roosevelt on its maiden voyage, [3] and the first supply officer of the USS Ronald Reagan. [1] He was also assigned to serve as White House military aide to president Ronald Reagan [7] and first lady Nancy Reagan. [1] Baucom worked with Acquisition and Sustainment for the Joint Staff from 1998 until 2000, [8] and in 2003 he became director for logistics transformation with the NATO Supreme Allied Command Transformation. He held the role for three years. [9] From August 2006 until July 2008 [8] he was commanding officer of the Fleet and Industrial Supply Center in Norfolk, Virginia, [1] while other roles have included director of contracting at the Fleet and Industrial Supply Center of Yokosuka, Japan [3] and executive assistant to the deputy commander for logistics at Naval Supply Systems Command. [1] For Headquarters, Supreme Allied Command Transformation, he was also the first deputy chief of staff for logistics. [3]
Baucom was promoted to rear admiral on May 1, 2009. At the time he served as both assistant deputy chief of staff for fleet readiness & training and fleet supply officer [1] for the US Fleet Forces Command, [3] roles he held from July 2008 until September 2009. [8] He was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Acquisition and Logistics Management in Washington D.C. [3] from September 2009 until August 2011[ citation needed ] with oversight for acquisition and logistics in the Navy and Marine Corps. [3]
He was the commander of Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support [3] in Philadelphia [7] from July 13, 2011 [10] until August 2012. [2] In support of Operation Enduring Freedom, [3] from August 2012 until January 2013 [2] he was director of the United States Central Command Deployment and Distribution Operations Center in Kuwait. [3] Maintaining his command of DLA Troop Support during this time, he afterwards returned to commanding DLA Troop Support [2] until October 2013. He joined the US Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) in October 2013 [11] as director, with roles in strategy, capabilities, policy and logistics. [3] USTRANSCOM relieved Baucom of his position in October 2015, citing disorderly conduct. [11] [12] Baucom was assigned to Fleet Forces Command at The Pentagon [12] [13] on November 4, 2015, [11] and in December 2015 he became the special assistant to the director for material readiness & logistics in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations. He retired in October 2016. [3]
Baucom joined the information services and management consulting firm of Vintun LLC in October 2016, where he assumed the post of senior director. [4] He holds memberships in the Military Officers Association of America, the National Defense Transportation Association, and the National Contract Management Association. [6]
Baucom is a resident of Alexandria, Virginia. [8] In years prior, Baucom lived in locales such as Norfolk, Virginia and Yokosuka, Japan. [3]