Companies coming & going

It's only a week into the new year, and already the county's homeland security incubator has celebrated two victories.

The Chesapeake Innovation Center welcomed the first new tenant since May to its Admiral Cochrane Drive headquarters just as it sent off another firm to operate on its own in Annapolis.

Exponential Storage - a data storage startup formerly known as InfraSi - is the homeland and national security incubator's first new firm recruited under county employees, who took over managing the center in June.

And while some incubator graduates have scampered off to Virginia, Exemplary Performance, a consulting...