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The Chesapeake Innovation Center (CIC) seeks applicants that are for-profit technology firms producing products or services that can enter the homeland and national security marketplace quickly. The specific types of homeland and national security technologies attracting a great deal of investment fall into several categories:
- Informatics: The interpretation and distribution of enormous quantities of data. This includes solutions addressing data mining and knowledge discovery, visualizations, pattern matching, information assurance, identity management, ontologies and semantics, multi-lingual/multimedia/multi source data handling and fusion, simulations, and entity extraction
- Sensors: Cameras and surveillance, cargo scanners, bio-metrics, WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) and CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives), and IED (Improvised Exploding Devices)
- High Speed Computing: Grid computing, quantum computing, and terra/beta byte storage
- Communications: Mesh or self organizing networks, signal intelligence, bandwidth, high-grade mobile security, location based technologies, device interoperability, network security
Note that convergent technologies are particularly attractive in today's security market. Convergent technologies are technologies that can also be applied outside government uses. A high-tech surveillance camera that has applications for DHS (Department of Homeland Security) as well as cost effective applications in malls and office buildings is an example of a convergent technology. A pattern matching data mining tool used in the intelligence community to "connect the dots" has utility with on line stock trading firms to comply with Sarbanes Oxley and find customers whose names appear on the watch list and are using the on-line trading to launder money.
For additional information please contact the CIC or call 410-224-2030 to speak to a business development professional.
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