Tennessee Valley Corridor -- Vision and Overview
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Since 1995 when it was first formed by Tennessee Congressman Zach Wamp, the Tennessee Valley Corridor has built a strong alliance of community, business, education and government leaders through a series of regular regional economic summits led by the Corridor's bipartisan and multi-state Congressional delegation.
The Corridor’s current Congressional delegation includes Tennessee Congressmen Zach Wamp, Bart Gordon, Jimmy Duncan, Lincoln Davis, and David Davis; Alabama Congressmen Bud Cramer and Robert Aderholt; Kentucky Congressman Hal Rogers; and Virginia Congressman Rick Boucher. In addition, Tennessee Senators Lamar Alexander, Bob Corker, and former Tennessee Senator Bill Frist, as well as Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, have been particularly active supporters of the effort.
Building on such regional assets as NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, the U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal, the U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center, the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Y-12 national security complex, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the National Transportation Research Center, the Center for Rural Development, the National Safe Skies Alliance, our world-class research universities and dozens of corporate leaders in science and technology, the Corridor has helped showcase the Tennessee Valley's superior quality of life and the people, business, natural and scientific resources needed for high-tech research, development, business and investment in the 21st Century.
Below: The roundtable discussion panel at the 2006 Summit closing dinner consisted of (from left to right):
Ron Bailey, Dean of Engineering, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; Congressman Zach Wamp
(R-TN); Congressman Jimmy Duncan (R-TN); Congressman Hal Rogers (R-KY); Congressman Bob Inglis (R-SC);
and Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-AL).
| Tom Kilgore, President and CEO of TVA (left) and Congressman Zach Wamp (R-TN) discuss "Advancing America's Energy Security" during a Session at the 2007 National Summit in Kingsport. |
Below Dr. John Petersen, President of The University of Tennessee (left) and Congressman Lincoln Davis (D-TN) talk at the 2007 TVC National Summit in Kingsport.
