The Commerce Department is one of five agencies the White House chose to pilot an Idea Lab in fiscal 2016. As part of the President’s budget request, Commerce would get a few million dollars to create this new office. Bruce Andrews is the deputy secretary of Commerce. On the Federal Drive with Tom Temin, he told executive editor Jason Miller what his department hopes to accomplish with the lab. Read Jason’s related story.

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