Award Honors Chapter President

Kenny Watts received the chapter's Professional of the Year Award presented by the Huntsville Association of Technical Societies at the June awards dinner. The award recognized Watts for his contributions in leading the resurrection of the chapter. As chapter president, Watts increased the membership to more than 200 people in less than three years. In his subsequent role as chapter technical symposium director, Watts planned and executed the chapter's first one-day Technical Symposium on Civil Military Interoperability in June 2008. A second Unmanned Systems Symposium followed in October 2008 and a third technical symposium on Force Protection in February 2009. Proceeds from the symposia were added to the chapter's scholarship fund. These venues provide a forum for developing cooperative relationships between the chapter and state and local governments, the military and industry partners. Watts is a senior business development manager with the Raytheon Company in Huntsville, Alabama.

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