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Dr. Virginia (Suzy) Young, after retirement from the federal government (U.S. Army), was the Vice Chancellor for Research for the University of Alabama (UA System) where she worked with the Chancellor & the Board of Trustees, administrators & research faculty across the three campuses at the University of Alabama (UA), The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) & University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH) to strengthen & broaden research initiatives & partnerships across the three universities. Currently she works solely in the Office for Research & Economic Development at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), where she investigates research opportunities & critical partnerships for faculty & Research Centers, & is the Director for the Office of Proposal Development. Previously. Suzy worked for over 29 years in the United States Army Aviation & Missile Research, Development & Engineering Center (AMRDEC), Redstone Arsenal, AL in various leadership positions. Her early years included being a member of the initial robotics working group across R&D labs of the Army, & began the first efforts to prototype & test armed ground robots for Ft Benning Infantry School. Her work expanded to team with the Navy for a joint demonstration at Ft Lewis, WA for unmanned ground sentry & weapons firing demonstrations. She was the Chief Technical Officer for the first Army/Marine Corp Joint Unmanned Ground Vehicle Office at Redstone Arsenal. Later in her career she began efforts to support the Army’s UAV/UAS programs in research on programs such as Manned Unmanned Teaming & counter UAS. She was the Director for Army Aviation S&T programs, & the Technical Point of Contact for all International exchanges within the Army in the area of robotics. She has also worked for six years in industry & taught at Vanderbilt University for five years.
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