In our defense
Happy Thursday, Baltimore. I hope those of you checking out the Washington Monument's holiday lights tonight aren't too cold or struggling too much to find parking in Mount Vernon.
Below, you'll see two recent stories about emerging resources for Maryland founders. One's about TEDCO's new cohorts for Black women and woman-identified entrepreneurs in Howard and Montgomery Counties, respectively. Another highlights the money the Department of Defense granted to the Maryland Department of Commerce to restart its DefTech program for defense-related innovation, which TEDCO will administer.
The latter of these stories reflects the centrality of defense tech to the state's economy (including that of Baltimore and the surrounding counties), while the former echoes the increasingly public importance of DEI to Maryland's economic future.
Given the TEDCO connection, I'm thinking a bit about how to best bridge that past and future. Our country's military tech has frequently been used in ways that disproportionately impact people of color, from the weapons Baltimoreans had to see National Guard soldiers hold while policing the unrest after Freddie Gray's death to the drones that hit civilians in the Middle East.
But the defense sector isn't going away, nor is its relevance to the regions so close to the nation's capital. So, do you see a way to marry this sector's economic impact with the humanitarian and social justice goals that underscore the push for DEI in local entrepreneurship? Let us know by emailing
baltimore@technical.ly, and thanks for your input.
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