Baltimore-Washington Cyber Task Force to steer cyber industry growth

With more than 19,000 cyber-related jobs available in state, there’s a strong case to be made that Maryland, and the Baltimore region in particular, is the preeminent location for cybersecurity companies and startups.
That’s the mission of the newly created Baltimore-Washington Cyber Task Force, a “private-sector task force to develop a joint Baltimore-D.C. strategy for cyber industry growth,” said Gene Bracken, vice president of communications for the Greater Baltimore Committee, in an e-mail.
The task force is a combined initiative of the Greater Baltimore Committee, the Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore and the Greater Washington Board of Trade. Bob Hannon, previously the president and CEO of Anne Arundel County Economic Development Corporation, has been hired as the project manager of the task force.
According to a press release, the task force “will partner with a number of public and private-sector organizations to develop and to begin implementing a strategy for cyber industry growth around the activities of the new U.S. Cyber Command,” located at Fort Meade in Annapolis Junction.