Success in future for tech security incubator?

Four years ago, county officials announced a fresh idea to attract young high-tech companies and help get them off the ground.

It was called the Chesapeake Innovation Center and the idea behind it was this: Recruit promising young firms, provide them with office space, business support, and contacts with giants such as the National Security Agency and Northrop Grumman.

It would be a taxpayer-funded operation that would pay off when the firms grew into strong companies providing new jobs for Anne Arundel and building the county's tax base.

In 2003, the CIC opened in a 24,000-square-foot facility at 175 Admiral Cochrane...