U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Bruce Andrews will lead a delegation of 20 American companies on a Cybersecurity Trade Mission to Bucharest, Romania, and Warsaw, Poland May 11-15, 2015. Assistant Secretary for Industry and Analysis Marcus Jadotte will also participate in the mission.

During a recent trip to Los Angeles, Secretary Pritzker participated in two armchair discussions about the role the Department of Commerce plays in advancing American leadership around the globe.

During a conference with American and Japanese business leaders last week in Los Angeles, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker delivered remarks on the U.S.-Japan economic partnership. Appearing alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy at the Japan-U.S.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Bruce Andrews yesterday encouraged small businesses to grow globally by selling more of their products and services to the world. Deputy Secretary Andrews spoke to a group of small business owners at the White House.

When disaster strikes, communities often suffer devastating losses of people and property. Recovering from a flood, hurricane, industrial accident or any other extreme event, can take months to years and cost billions of dollars. Local and regional catastrophes also impose a tremendous national toll. Since 2002, the U.S.

A NOAA flood exposure risk mapping tool that was developed in New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania has now been expanded to cover coastal areas along the entire U.S. East Coast and Gulf of Mexico.

Yesterday, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Bruce Andrews signed a Cooperation Arrangement between the U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROWTH).

Today, the Department of Commerce is joining the international celebration of Earth Day at its Herbert C. Hoover Building (HCHB) in Washington, DC. Office of Facilities and Environmental Quality will host several “green” organizations to share information about their products and efforts to make a more sustainable planet.

Each Spring, Ex-Im’s Annual Conference brings together more than a thousand American exporters, brokers, bankers, lenders, government officials, journalists, and members of the U.S. and international business communities to meet, hear from speakers, do business, and talk about the global financial landscape.

The Commerce Department today announced a redesigned section of the website to better integrate the overall data catalog, a list of our publicly available data sets, into Commerce.gov via Data.Commerce.Gov.

As a participant of a special 24-American company delegation to China, led by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and U.S. Department of Energy Deputy Secretary Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, I came prepared to share with U.S. and China leaders about the latest in U.S. capabilities and the business opportunities for U.S.

LanzaTech has been operating in China since 2010 and has offices in Shanghai as well as two joint ventures with leading Chinese steel mills, Baosteel and Shougang.

In 2014, two daredevils broke into a construction site and climbed to the top of the second tallest building in the world: the Shanghai Tower. You may recognize it from their vertigo-inducing viral video, which leaves no doubt that the Tower is tall. What it doesn’t show is how much American businesses have had an impact on making the structure one of the greenest large buildings in the world.

Tim Tangredi, Chief Executive Officer of Dais Analytic, highlights how Smart Cities – Smart Growth trade mission to China will benefit his company, the American economy and the planet.

In 1897, when The Dow Chemical Company first opened its doors in Michigan, our founder most likely wouldn’t have known that more than a century later, Dow would be one of the world’s largest chemical manufacturers.

Awards often signal a culmination of efforts, but the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award marks a major milestone during—not at the end of—a continuous quest for organizational innovation and performance excellence.

Last week, I had the pleasure of touring Rhode Island at the invitation of the state’s congressional delegation to see first-hand the collaborative work taking place there to build the next generation of businesses for the region.

Today, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) commemorated the 225th anniversary of the Patent Act. Enacted on April 10, 1790, the Patent Act expanded upon the progress clause in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S.

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today traveled to Richmond, Virginia to join U.S. Senator Tim Kaine for a roundtable meeting with local business owners.

The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is one of the primary agencies charged with administering an effective U.S. export control system. The U.S. maintains export controls to ensure that our most advanced technologies, commodities, and software do not end up in the wrong hands overseas.

More than half, 51.5 percent, of U.S. homes have a prepared emergency evacuation kit, according to new metropolitan area-level American Housing Survey statistics released jointly today by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau.

Serving as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, I am in charge of one of the largest intellectual property (IP) offices in the world.

As part of this work, I also have managed a nationwide grant program that funded the state broadband data collection and capacity building activities that supported each state’s effort to succeed in the digital economy, making sure that technology can help power the middle-class economy.

I love my job. This was true when I was a junior researcher contributing to projects and is true today as I help lead the strategic direction of NIST’s growing program in cybersecurity.