IT Products and Services

Looking for the perfect location to start, expand, or relocate an information technology enterprise? Then it’s time to look at Maryland. We’re confident that the closer you look, the more you’ll like what Maryland has to offer:

Ready access to major government and military customers, including the NIH, NSA, Department of Homeland Security, NASA, NAVAIR and Aberdeen Proving Ground
A highly trained workforce—MD boasts the highest concentration of professional and technical workers in the country (25.7.%) and one of the largest Computer Science programs in the country at the University of Maryland
Labor costs that are 5 percent to 15 percent lower than Silicon Valley, San Francisco and New York
Ranked second among the states in federal R&D obligations—$12.2 billion annually

GLOBAL REACH, LOCAL ACCESS
What’s the strategic advantage of a Maryland location? In a word, ACCESS . To customers. To competitors. To thousands of potential strategic and channel partners. And to the world’s largest IT consumer—the U.S. government—representing 12% of the software market.

Located roughly halfway between Boston and Atlanta, London and Los Angeles—and home to more than 50 federal institutions, Maryland’s location ensures ready access and proximity to key domestic and international partners and customers in the aerospace and defense, genomics, drug discovery, wireless, technical instruments, engineering and information security markets.

Strategic Advantages of a Maryland Location

Fiber-rich, redundant, and reliable telecommunications network valued at $5.5 billion
A separate power grid from NY, making MD an ideal spot for back-office operations
High-speed train access to Washington and Philadelphia, with travel time to New York City—downtown Baltimore to Manhattan’s Penn Station—just 2.5 hours on Amtrak
Three international airports within an hour’s drive; and seven regional airports throughout Maryland serving corporate needs
Sixth in the nation in Computer Systems Design employment, with more than 56,000 jobs

Major Federal Customers for Software and IT Services

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
U.S. Census Bureau

STRENGTH and NUMBERS
They say success breeds success. And it stands to reason. Maybe that’s why Maryland continues to attract both established technology leaders and start-up entrepreneurs to an area that already boasts one of the largest and most active IT and software business clusters in the nation.

Take advantage of a Maryland location to network and make deals with industry leaders, right in your own backyard—just like some of the major IT businesses that currently call the state home: ATK Space Division/Sw ales, Boeing, Breakaway, General Dynamics, IBM, EMC² , Lockheed Martin Information Systems, Micros, Northrop Grumman, SAIC, Serena Software and Van Dyke Technology Group.

AN EXCEPTIONAL (and growing) WORKFORCE
Maryland’s numbers speak for themselves:

First ranked among U.S. states in percentage of professional and technical workers (25.7%)
First among the states in number of PhD’s in mathematical sciences per 100,000 workers
More than 165,000 technology employees
Approximately 56,000 computer systems design and software development employees
Almost 2,700 IT degrees awarded annually in the state

A BUSINESS-FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT
According to Entrepreneur magazine, the State of Maryland was the most active early-stage investor in the U.S. in 2006. Through a number of innovative assistance programs and direct equity investment, Maryland is building a culture, environment, and infrastructure to support technology commercialization and business growth.

Home to more than a dozen business incubators, including the Chesapeake Innovation Center , the nation’s first incubator to focus on homeland security solutions
The Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO), which administers several assistance programs aimed and supporting the transfer and commercialization of technology developed in university and federal labs
The Maryland Venture Fund, financed and operated by the Department of Business and Economic Development, makes direct equity investments in emerging technology and life sciences companies.

Maryland technology companies also benefit from the State’s commitment to incubators, partnerships and alliances aimed at helping businesses thrive. Key information technology partners include:

Chesapeake Innovation Center (CIC)
National Security Agency (NSA)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (APL)
The Patuxent Partnership
Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)
Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO)
Tech Council of Maryland (TCM)
Greater Baltimore Tech Council (GBTC)

Contact the Maryland Business Development Team at 410-767-6870 to learn more about Maryland's confidential site selection services for growing businesses.