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Next Century Corporation Sponsors Chesapeake Innovation Center (CIC)Organizations Team to Develop Systems that Get Information to Users Who Need It MostAnnapolis, MD (Dec. 6, 2004) – For people like special operations troops and firefighters, access to reliable, updated, and easily understood information can determine the difference between success and failure — and life and death. Building sophisticated technology to feed information to personnel operating under the world’s most challenging conditions is the specialty of Laurel, Maryland’s Next Century Corporation, the newest sustaining sponsor of the CIC. “The success of our clients depends on our ability to integrate cutting-edge technology into reliable systems that will work anywhere from America’s most advanced command centers to Afghanistan’s most foreboding peaks,” said Jim Long, Vice President of Next Century. “That means we must work with entrepreneurs developing innovative solutions that will give the users of our products the edge they need – and those entrepreneurs are at the CIC.” The systems under development by Next Century, called Strategic Insight™ solutions, provide end users such as military personnel, first responders, and clinicians with real-time situational awareness and decision support. Strategic Insight™ systems process complex information and present it in displays that are easy to use and understand. For example, the company produces a sophisticated system that Special Operations troops can use to detect electronic signals from enemy forces. What makes the system so powerful is that troops can wear it while conducting their primary missions; the system is designed to allow a commando to complete a combat operation while simultaneously wearing an antenna and receiving data from a computer. “The best technology in the world does no good if it cannot be operated effectively by end users. The Next Century team is unmatched at producing systems that combine ease of use with mission effectiveness,” said John Elstner, CEO of the CIC. “Plus, Next Century’s network of contacts and extensive experience in growing successful technology companies will benefit the CIC and the growing ‘Informatics Corridor’ of advanced technology developers and users centered in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.”
About the CIC: The CIC harnesses the power of
entrepreneurship to help our nation enhance its technological edge.
A public-private partnership
initiated by the Anne Arundel Economic Development Corporation, the
CIC is America’s first business accelerator focused on homeland and
national security. The Center brings together its member companies – start
ups with innovative technologies -- with its partners -- large enterprises
with requirements for security-related high technology. CIC member
companies produce everything from an anthrax treatment to software
that replaces
the computer password. Its partners include the National Security
Agency, ARINC, Next Century Corp. and Innovent Nokia. Among
its corporate
sponsors are ARINC, Sturn Wagner Lombardo & Company, Kelly FedSecure,
Piper Rudnick, and Whiteford Taylor and Preston. About
Next Century: Next Century was founded in early 2002 by a small group
of seasoned high tech executives in response to September 11.
Funded by the founders, the company‘s mission is to deliver technology
systems to the US Government and private organizations that save
lives and protect
our nation. Today, the company has twenty employees and a growing
list of leading customers, including the US Special Operations Command
(USSOCOM),
the US Army, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Johns Hopkins
Applied Physics Lab (APL), and the Pentagon’s Office of Force Transformation
(OFT).
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