Chesapeake Innovation Center: Startups Seek Grants from Homeland Security

Sitting in a glass-walled conference room first thing Monday morning, executives from a dozen start-up companies were given the local tech equivalent of a buried treasure map: a detailed presentation by the Department of Homeland Security on how to win grants and sell it products. Later the fortunate entrepreneurs took turns making individual pitches to the agency's representatives. . . . Sitting in a glass-walled conference room first thing Monday morning, executives from a dozen start-up companies were given the local tech equivalent of a buried treasure map: a detailed presentation by the Department of Homeland Security on how to win grants and sell it products. Later the fortunate entrepreneurs took turns making individual pitches to the agency's representatives.

It's the kind of opportunity some local techies spend months chasing down, but it's almost commonplace for executives of companies housed in the Chesapeake Innovation Center (CIC), an Annapolis incubator focused solely on developing homeland security technologies.

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