OpEd: Maryland Must Create an ‘Unfair Advantage’ for Key Industries

David Tohn
As CEO of a Maryland-based defense and intelligence technology firm, I spend a lot of time visiting other technology ecosystems and asking myself, “Why are they performing better than Maryland?” To borrow from Gov. Wes Moore, they decided to win, built a strategy around their strengths and aligned their policy environment to support it. For years, Maryland has had the strengths without the strategy. Gov. Moore’s “lighthouse industry” initiative is a serious attempt to change that.