(FORTUNE Small Business) – Incubators have given us so many good ideas--who can forget eToys?--that it only makes sense to entrust them with homeland defense. The brand-new Chesapeake Innovation Center in Annapolis, backed by Nokia and the National Security Agency, is the country's first business incubator dedicated exclusively to antiterrorism. It won't provide financing or even free rent, but it does allow access to lucrative government contracts for firms developing technology for handheld bioterror-detection devices, mobile-phone security, and password encryption. "I don't have much experience navigating government," says David Wright, whose firm, PharmAthene, is trying to create an Anthrax vaccine, "but they know people at every agency you can think of." --N.S.