Commerce Department
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It’s been three years since the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act became law and agencies are using it to plan their 2024 budget requests.
August 11, 2022 -
Agencies are thinking about ways to boost employee engagement in a hybrid workforce, with more interactions and shorter learning sessions.
July 25, 2022 -
Agencies are expected to incorporate President's Management Agenda initiatives into their multi-year strategic planning, some of which, including the Commerce Department, had an easier time doing thanks to early insights from the Office of Management and Budget.
June 20, 2022 -
After a four-year hiatus, the Commerce Department has decided to reestablish an outside advisory board focused on innovation. The National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship is back up and running with 32 new board members picked from industry and academia across the country.
June 15, 2022 -
Here are three news items you may have missed from the recent Emerging Technology and Innovation Conference sponsored by ACT-IAC in Cambridge, Md.
June 15, 2022 -
Measuring risks and setting benchmarks for emerging fintech is top of mind for agencies such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Commerce Department.
April 28, 2022 -
The Commerce Department has been dealing with the internet and its implications since at least the mid-1990s, mainly through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
April 25, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a federal judge in Texas has blocked the Navy from enforcing its COVID vaccine mandate against nearly 4,000 sailors who’d filed religious exemptions.
March 31, 2022 -
The departments of Commerce and Housing and Urban Development, at the Biden administration's urging, are planning to bring tens of thousands of federal employees back to the office starting April 25.
March 30, 2022 -
Congress back in 2010 created a loan guarantee program to run through the Commerce Department. Its purpose was to help along technological innovation an small and medium manufacturers. But the program never got started. Why not?
February 09, 2022 -
House Democrats passed a nearly 3,000 page bill last week aimed at American Industrial competitiveness. There's a lot in there for federal agencies, including the Commerce Department. But does it have legs? We get more now from Bloomberg deputy news director Loren Duggan.
February 07, 2022 -
Paul Cunningham, the chief information security officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, is retiring at the end of February.
January 31, 2022 -
The Office of Personnel Management and Commerce Department will host a roundtable to discuss the best ways to implement diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility into hiring and recruitment.
January 26, 2022 -
What are the IT priorities of the U.S Department of Commerce? How is Commerce and its bureaus leveraging emerging technologies? What is Commerce doing to modernize and secure its IT infrastructure? Join host Michael J. Keegan as he explores these questions and more with André Mendes, Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Commerce.
December 20, 2021 -
The former White House staffer plans to continue ADI's advocacy for the Technology Modernization Fund, as well as "smart" cybersecurity policies.
November 17, 2021