Keith L. Funkhouser inducted into Distinguished Alumni Academy

Mr. Funkhouser received his BSAE from West Virginia University in 1982 and is the current Vice President of ABL Operations at ATK Tactical Propulsion & Controls located in Rocket Center, West Virginia. He joined Hercules at Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in March 1983, and has since worked 22 years in the Engineering and Programs departments prior to being transferred to ATK's Elkton, Maryland facility in 2005. During those 22 years, he worked many programs from the Engineering side that included SRAM II, SFW, Titan IV, and VFDR, among many others. While on the Programs side, he was Program Manager for AIM-9X Sidewinder, AIM-9M Sidewinder, Sparrow and RAM. Prior to being transferred to Elkton, he was Director of Tactical and Composite Programs. Keith was brought back to ABL in April 2007 and is the first Mineral County native named to head the ABL facility.

While at WVU, he was a member of Sigma Gamma Tau, the National Honor Society for Aerospace Engineers. He is currently a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Keith and his wife Teresa relocated to New Creek, West Virginia and have two children, son Steven is attending medical school at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, in Lewisburg, West Virginia, and daughter Amanda will be a junior at Frostburg State University and is majoring in Psychology.

07/09/2009