The intelligence and security informatics market represents a nearly $1 billion market, according to “The Business of Connecting Dots,” a recent market research report by C.E. Unterberg, Tobin and the Chesapeake Innovation Center.  America’s enterprises at all levels of government and the private sector are creating, collecting and storing more information than ever before. As people struggle with an unprecedented volume, velocity and variety of data, the field of Informatics has grown to help them discover, analyze, interpret and use knowledge buried in vast amounts of data.

Anne Arundel County is at the center of the nation’s Informatics Corridor, a newly recognized economic and technological phenomenon embracing the rapidly growing need for handling information. This broad region, stretching from Washington D.C. to Baltimore, Frederick, and Aberdeen, encompasses a network of more than 60 federal laboratories, educational institutions, and private sector companies conducting and sponsoring research in a variety of informatics sciences that is unequaled anywhere in the world.

One of the primary users of informatics is the homeland security market. Government agencies, such as the National Security Agency (NSA), located in Anne Arundel County and said to be the nation’s largest intelligence organization, and other corporations are spending $1 billion a year for advanced data analytics and other software designed to advance the war against terrorism and crime. It is estimated that this market is expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 20%. 

Anne Arundel County is working hard to crystallize and harness the strength of the Informatics Corridor.  AAEDC, along with several partner organizations, seeks to further the informatics agenda in our county and throughout the region.  Our partners include: