The Maryland Innovation and Security Institute has agreed to partner with United States Cyber Command to work on new technologies and solutions to problems facing the government and the private sector. A facility called DreamPort in Columbia will house the ...

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Cybersecurity executives and government officials are forming a roundtable group aimed at boosting the state's efforts to become a center for the growing field.

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WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world — but not in the United States — that allows the U.S. to conduct surveillance on those machines, The New York Times reported Tuesday. ...

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The most urgent threat to national security has been swept under the rug, according to speakers at the Greater Baltimore Committee’s annual Economic Outlook Conference on Thursday.

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GLEN BURNIE — Beltsville-based AiNet is preparing to open a data center in Glen Burnie, setting it up for cross-state competition with traditional data center hotspot Ashburn. Deepak Jain, the company’s president and founder, said the company plans to open ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A bipartisan group of state senators called Thursday for $6 million to pay for a new tax credit for Maryland workers seeking federal security clearances. The state’s economy relies heavily on federal contractors clustered around the National Security ...

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Thomas Coale, an associate at Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann LLP, recently started a new practice at the Baltimore litigation firm handling security clearance issues for government contractors’ employees. It’s an area Coale, 29, expects to expand, given the number ...

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Maryland’s economic strengths could make the state “particularly vulnerable” to belt-tightening in Washington as lawmakers debate cuts to defense, education, environmental protection and other spending, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin said. The state’s junior senator, a 44-year veteran of elected office, ...

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