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Two area businesses honored by Disabled American Veterans

By Special to the Ledger
Published: July 11, 2010

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Two local businesses have been named employers of the year by the Alabama Department of Disabled American Veterans.

NavTech LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Navigator Development Group Inc. of Enterprise, was named the Alabama DAV Small Employer of the Year. The Alabama DAV Large Employer of the Year was Army Fleet Support at Fort Rucker, a joint venture of L-3 Integrated Systems Group and Helicopter Support Company Inc.

NavTech is a visual innovation company. Its highly skilled and experienced teams of interactive 3D developers, management subject matter experts and organizational developers have earned an exceptional reputation among educators, government and industry personnel.

Of the 16 NavTech employees, 10 are rated disabled veterans. NavTech’s parent company Navigator, locally owned by Albert Patterson and Keith Gay, was named Alabama’s DAV Small Employer of the Year in 2007.

Since 2003 Army Fleet Support has provided quality aviation maintenance support to the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory and the U.S. Army Aviation Flight Test Directorate at Fort Rucker. Of the 124 veterans AFS has hired in the past 12 months, 40 have been disabled veterans.

With more than 1.2 million members, DAV is an organization of disabled veterans who are focused on building better lives for disabled veterans and their families.

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