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 | | The Latest News | 2023 SelectUSA Investment Summit: Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo Announces Speaker Lineup, Includes White House Senior Officials, U.S. Cabinet, U.S. Governors, and Prominent Private Sector Leaders
The U.S. Department of Commerce and SelectUSA announced the lineup of global executives, business leaders and U.S. government representatives who will address participants at the 2023 SelectUSA Investment Summit from May 1-4 in the Washington, D.C. area. Read More → | U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo Announces Fiber Manufacturing Expansions in North Carolina
As part of the Biden-Harris Administration's Investing in America tour, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information Alan Davidson traveled to Hickory, NC to celebrate the announcement of new fiber optic cable production in the U.S. made possible by the Administration's Internet for All Initiative. Read More → Additional NTIA News → | Commerce Department Outlines Proposed National Security Guardrails for CHIPS for America Incentives Program
The U.S. Department of Commerce today released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the guardrails included in the CHIPS Incentives Program to advance America's technological and national security. The national security guardrails are intended to ensure technology and innovation funded by the CHIPS and Science Act is not used for malign purposes by adversarial countries against the United States or its allies and partners. Read More → | President Biden's Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Would Bolster Key Commerce Department Initiatives
The Biden-Harris Administration submitted to Congress the President's Budget for fiscal year 2024. President Biden's 2024 Budget for the Department of Commerce makes historic investments to drive U.S. innovation and global competitiveness, foster inclusive capitalism and equitable economic growth, address the climate crisis, and expand opportunity and discovery through data. Read More → | Deputy Secretary Graves Statement on the Release of the National Cybersecurity Strategy
The Biden-Harris Administration released the National Cybersecurity Strategy to position the United States and its allies and partners to build a digital ecosystem that is defensible, resilient, and aligned with our values. After the announcement, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves released the following statement: "The National Cybersecurity Strategy reinforces the need for partnership to address cybersecurity challenges critical to our economic and national security. This strategy reflects the vital role that the Department of Commerce plays in cybersecurity and leverages many of the Department's best-in-class resources, such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology's guidelines, and many other initiatives. We look forward to implementing this across the administration and in collaboration with the private sector." Read More → | | | | | |
| |  | AI Could Set a New Bar for Designing Hurricane-Resistant Buildings
| | Being able to withstand hurricane-force winds is the key to a long life for many buildings on the Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast of the U.S. Determining the right level of winds to design for is tricky business, but support from artificial intelligence may offer a simple solution. | | Read More → | | |  | | Journeys of Innovation: A girl's window into history | | Ignoring conventional wisdom on toys, educator Pleasant Rowland saw a market for tweens and created a beloved $300-million company. With more than 160 million books sold since 1986, the characters Rowland created continue to help children explore American history using stories about 9-year-old girls growing up during challenging times. | | Read More → | | | | | |  | | Two Years Into Pandemic, Domestic Migration Trends Shifted | | The COVID-19 pandemic changed the U.S. population in many ways, including births, deaths and international migration. One of its more intriguing impacts was on domestic migration patterns. | | Read More → | | |  | | Spring Outlook: California drought cut by half with more relief to come | | Significant flooding is ongoing in the western U.S., especially in California, following another series of strong Pacific storms that battered the region and piled on to an already historic snowpack. | | Read More → | | | | | | |
| Commerce by the Numbers | EDA Looks Back, And Ahead, At The American Rescue Plan
On the first anniversary of the American Rescue Plan (ARP), President Biden noted that, "Few pieces of legislation – no hyperbole – in American history have done more to lift this country out of a crisis…". A year later, the sentiment not only continues to ring true, but has even more evidence to prove it. Learn More → | Arts and Culture Economy Grows 13.7 percent in 2021
Arts and cultural economic activity, adjusted for inflation, increased 13.7 percent in 2021 after decreasing 4.8 percent in 2020, according to statistics released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. By comparison, the broader economy, as measured by real gross domestic product, increased 5.9 percent in 2021 after decreasing 2.8 percent in 2020. Learn More → | New Work-From-Home Data by Race and Ethnicity Now Available
The U.S. Census Bureau released preliminary data from the Annual Business Survey (ABS) showing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on businesses. The data provided include percentage of firms classified by sex, ethnicity, race and veteran status of the business. Learn more → | | | | |
| In Case You Missed It | | March 20, 2023 | Is Your Cybersecurity Strategy Falling Victim to These 6 Common Pitfalls?
| Does your security team consider your organization's employees to be your allies or your enemies? Do they think employees are the weakest link in the security chain? Let's put that last one more broadly and bluntly: Does your team assume users are clueless?
| | | | | | | March 15, 2023 | | NTIA seeks feedback on future airwaves for innovative technologies | | The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) on Wednesday began seeking comment on identifying airwaves for more intensive use and innovative new uses by both the private sector and federal agencies. | | | | | | | March 8, 2023 | | USPTO's Council for Inclusive Innovation launches new initiative to expedite patent applications of first-time filers | | To incentivize more innovation from communities all across America, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced the Council for Inclusive Innovation (CI2) First-Time Filer Expedited Examination Pilot Program. | | | | | | |
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