While the Maryland economy is facing budget uncertainties, the state can help surmount these challenges by growing private growth industries, converting research into jobs, connecting the region and attracting federal funding from the few federal budgets (defense and economic competitiveness) that are likely to grow.
Here’s how: Winning the technology race with China will be a bipartisan effort in Congress and with the White House — and state of Maryland has a role to play. The Department of Defense R&D budget is expected to grow, including its university-affiliated research centers (UARCs) that ensure essential engineering and technology capability are maintained.
Maryland and California are the only two states with two UARCs, but Maryland’s are proximate to each other. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab UARC, located in southern Howard County, is closer to College Park than to JHU’s Baltimore campus. And the nation’s newest UARC and only one at an HBCU is located…
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