Tag Archives: Commerce Department

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has been appointed to succeed Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker as the next chair of the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council. The White House announced the rotation after the council made progress in responding to the Deepwater Horizon spill since it was founded in July 2012, the Commerce Department …

The Minority Business Development Agency has been allocated $35.6 million in President Barack Obama’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2017. MBDA said Friday the FY 2017 budget request for the agency saw a $3.6 million increase from the FY 2016 allocation. If approved, the budget will be used to expand services and assistance to eight …

The General Services Administration‘s Digital Analytics Program has introduced 10 agency-specific dashboards to an online tool that works to collect analytics data on Web traffic to government agencies’ websites. An article posted Thursday said the dashboards added to the analytics.usa.gov aim to provide information on the public’s interaction with websites of specific agencies. Tim …

The Commerce Department’s data service has launched a new public-private partnership project intended to help data scientists and programmers gain access to the agency’s open data. The Commerce Data Usability Project aims to provide tutorials contributed by the private sector, academia and government that contain suggestions on how to use …

Some government and industry executives told a congressional hearing Tuesday they believe the U.S. government should review a multilateral arms control agreement’s policy that restricts cross-border sales of computer surveillance technology, FCW reported Wednesday. Aisha Chowdhry writes the Wassenaar Arrangement was amended in 2013 to include intrusion software and Internet network monitoring products to …

The Commerce Department has prioritized efforts to ensure the Internet remains a free and open technology and to make agency data available to policymakers, companies and the general public, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker told McKinsey Global Institute in a recent interview. Pritzker said to James Manyika, a director at the McKinsey Global …

Nick Nayak is set to return to the Internal Revenue Service as chief procurement officer, Federal Times reported Friday. Jill Aitoro writes Nayak will succeed David Dasher, who will take the role of CPO at the First Responder Network Authority within the Commerce Department. Nayak departed his public sector service …

Jeffrey Chen, a data scientist in residence at Georgetown University, has joined the Commerce Department as its first-ever chief data scientist and will help efforts to meet the goals of the Commerce Data Service. Tyrone Grandison, deputy chief data officer and CDS head, wrote in a blog entry posted Tuesday …

Ian Kalin, chief data officer of the Commerce Department, has said the new Commerce Data Service initiative seeks to apply the department’s data resources toward efforts to drive U.S. technological innovation and competitiveness. Kalin wrote in a blog entry posted Monday that Tyrone Grandison, formerly a Presidential Innovation Fellow at the Labor Department, …

The Government Accountability Office recommends the departments of Energy and State finalize their strategies to manage the unobligated balances in two separate accounts as part of GAO’s study into the use of public funds. GAO said in a report published Friday the unobligated balances for fiscal years 2012 to 2014 are in DOE’s Western Area Power Administration construction, rehabilitation, …