East Tennessee is home to premier research and manufacturing institutions that are centers of discovery and attract the most talented minds to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges in science, technology and energy.
Watch Video →ETEC is an independent, regional, non-profit, membership organization created in the early 1970s, dedicated to supporting the federal government’s missions in East Tennessee, as well as seeking new ways to create prosperity, promote regional development, and explore opportunities for growth.
Organized in 1973, the East Tennessee Economic Council (ETEC) is an independent, regional, non-profit membership organization dedicated to supporting the federal government’s missions in Oak Ridge as well as encouraging new opportunities to fully utilize the highly-skilled talent, cutting-edge technologies and unique facilities that make up the federal reservation, the University of Tennessee complex, and the TVA region.
ETEC works in strong partnership with federal contractors, DOE and NNSA representatives, state officials, small businesses, and other local economic development organizations to seek new ways to use federal investments in science and security to create prosperity, promote regional development, and explore opportunities for growth.
ETEC Presents 2019 Awards
Four leaders with long resumes of service in East Tennessee were awarded the Muddy Boot by the East Tennessee Economic Council at the Annual Meeting & Awards Celebration on December 6, 2019.
Dr. Harold Conner, Jr. and Edwena Crowe, and Dr. Lee Riedinger were named 2019 Muddy Boot Award winners. U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander, who keynoted the event, also picked up his Muddy Boot, originally awarded in 2010.
The Postma Young Professional Medal was presented to community leader and business owner Brad Spears of EnTech Advantage.
DOE’s Oak Ridge Reservation is an economic engine for the state of Tennessee. Studying the effects of DOE’s investment in Tennessee in fiscal year 2017, the report examines job creation, state GDP growth, private-sector procurements, payroll and pension disbursement, state and local tax contributions, community development, as well as the ripple effects of this spending.
