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Secretary Raimondo Makes the Case for Care Infrastructure Investments with TIME’S UP President and CEO Tina Tchen and TIME’S UP Care Economy Business Council
Yesterday, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo, TIME’S UP President and CEO Tina Tchen, and over 75 CEOs and senior leaders from the TIME’S UP Care Economy Business Council met for a discussion on how investments in a comprehensive caregiving infrastructure will build a stronger, more inclusive economy. Throughout the event, speakers highlighted the economic benefits that caregiving investments have on the nation’s economic recovery and long-term success, as well as working women and their families.
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Secretary Raimondo Announces $153 Million to Promote Innovation in Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has made two awards totaling $153 million to the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL). The awards were announced today by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo at the NIIMBL annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
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The Opportunity Project: Census Bureau’s Innovation Model Continues to Expand Through Post-COVID-19 Challenges
Each year, the U.S. Census Bureau brings together cross-sector collaborators during The Opportunity Project’s (TOP) technology development sprints to come up with ways to use data and technology to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges. TOP is led by the Census Bureau’s Census Open Innovation Labs. It engages government, technologists and communities to create digital products using federal open data that serve the public.
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Commerce Department Adds 34 Entities to the Entity List to Target Enablers of China’s Human Rights Abuses and Military Modernization, and Unauthorized Iranian and Russian Procurement
The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added 34 entities to the Entity List for their involvement in, or risk of becoming involved in, activities contrary to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States. Of these 34 entities, 14 are based in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and have enabled Beijing’s campaign of repression, mass detention, and high-technology surveillance against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and members of other Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regions of China (XUAR), where the PRC continues to commit genocide and crimes against humanity.
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Deputy Secretary Don Graves Praises Commerce’s USPTO for Their Critical Work in Promoting American Competitiveness, Innovation, and Ingenuity
On July 1, 2021, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves visited the Commerce Department’s U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) headquarters in Alexandria, VA. During his visit, he toured the National Inventors Hall of Fame museum, experienced a “day in the life” of a patent examiner and a trademark examining attorney, and met with leadership about the USPTO’s role in advancing American competitiveness.
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Commerce Increases Restrictions on Burmese Military by Adding Four Entities to Entity List in Continued Response to the Recent Military Coup
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has added four entities to the Entity List in its latest action in response to the February 1, 2021 military coup in Burma: King Royal Technologies Co., Ltd., a telecommunications company that provides satellite communications services in support of the Burmese military, and Wanbao Mining and its two subsidiaries, Myanmar Wanbao Mining Copper, Ltd. and Myanmar Yang Tse Copper, Ltd., copper mining companies that have revenue-sharing agreements with Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited (MEHL), an entity added to the Entity List in March 2021.
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| Dive into Shark Week 2021 |
| Join us for Shark Week July 11-18, 2021 as we celebrate one of the ocean's top predators. Sharks play a key role in food web and help ensure the balance of ocean ecosystems. NOAA Fisheries manages commercial and recreational shark fisheries in the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| Journeys of innovation: Keeping Innovation Fresh |
| As a 12-year-old, Kavita Shukla drank water believed to be contaminated. Because of her grandmother's quick homemade remedy, she didn't get sick. Since then, Shukla has devoted her life to figuring out why the remedy worked and how to replicate and advance its effects to mitigate world hunger. |
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| NIST Evaluates Face Recognition Software’s Accuracy for Flight Boarding |
| The most accurate face recognition algorithms have demonstrated the capability to confirm airline passenger identities while making very few errors, according to recent tests of the software conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. |
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| EDA Helps Vermont Entrepreneurs Take First Steps in the Business World |
| The launch of Do North, a professional and creative co-working space for entrepreneurs, helping them take their first steps in the business world, was made possible in part through funding provided by the Economic Development Administration. |
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Data and Reports
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GDP Updates for 2020 and Earlier Years Coming July 29
The Bureau of Economic Analysis will update 2020 statistics on gross domestic product, personal income, spending, saving, and other measures of the pandemic year’s economy on July 29, as part of our regular annual update of national statistics for previous years. Each summer, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis uses newly available data, and often methodological improvements as well, to refine our previous quarterly and annual estimates of gross domestic product (GDP) and related statistics.
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NTIA Releases Comprehensive Review of U.S. Space-based Operations and Spectrum Use
Every day, Americans depend on space-based technologies, which power navigation services, accurate weather forecasts, rural Internet access, public safety communications, national security objectives, and more. All of these technologies depend on a key public resource – radiofrequency spectrum – both for controlling space operations and for relaying communications and data to and from Earth. Recently, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration released a first-of-its-kind report documenting the wide array of current and projected spectrum uses by space-based systems.
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Spanish-Language Survey Respondents Report Greater Pandemic Hardships
The economic ramifications of the pandemic have been far reaching but their impact has not been felt evenly across U.S. populations — not even within racial and ethnic groups. The pandemic has disproportionately affected certain groups, who were hit by record unemployment, mental health challenges and the accumulation of debt. Among Hispanics (of any race), the repercussions were even greater for those who responded to surveys in Spanish rather than in English.
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| In Case You Missed It |
| July 14, 2021 |
| The US Needs to Get Back in the Business of Making Chips |
“It's a national security risk if we don't start producing more semiconductors in America,” Gina Raimondo, the US secretary of commerce, said Tuesday at an event in Washington, DC. Speaking at the Global Emerging Technology Summit, sponsored by the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, Raimondo said the overall market share tells only part of the story. “Another statistic, which I personally think is more alarming, [is that] zero percent of leading-edge chips are made in America right now,” she told an audience of policymakers and executives.
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| July 7, 2021 |
| Commerce Sec. Raimondo: Business needs to take the women’s employment crisis more seriously—and support care infrastructure policies |
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Big companies and many lawmakers need to take the national women’s employment crisis far more seriously—or risk damaging the United States’ global competitiveness, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo warned this week. “You cannot have a strong workforce, a strong economy, and a strong democracy if women aren't included,” Raimondo told Fortune in an interview this week, a few days after U.S. monthly jobs data showed that more than 1.6 million women are still missing from the U.S. workforce.
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| July 7, 2021 |
| Lobsters, cruises and scotch: One Cabinet secretary's push to sell Biden's agenda |
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Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo won't hesitate to make the hard ask. She wants to make that clear. There may be, after all, nothing less than the fate of President Joe Biden's sweeping $4 trillion economic agenda hanging in the balance in the weeks ahead. But in an interview in her office a few blocks down the street from the White House, the former Rhode Island governor laid out a distinctly old-school -- and bipartisan -- relationship-building process that has made her what White House officials view as a key asset in the effort to lay the groundwork for the high-wire legislative process that lies ahead.
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