Welcome to the Commerce Department’s first-ever National Disability Leadership Summit. Thank you to the American Association of People with Disabilities for partnering with our Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships for this event. I’m proud that our Department has a broad approach to accessibility that includes physical and digital accessibility, reasonable accommodation, and...

Good morning, everyone. On behalf of myself and Secretary Raimondo, I’d like to welcome you to the inaugural International Open RAN Symposium. I’m so pleased to be able to join you here today. I’d first like to thank the teams at NTIA’s Institute for Telecommunication Sciences and its international affairs office for making this convening possible. This is the largest convening the Department of...

Thank you, Governor Polis, for that introduction, and for your support for this project every step of the way. I’d also like to thank Senators Hickenlooper and Bennet, and the entire Colorado delegation for their partnership in making the Tech Hubs program a reality. Hello everyone! I’m so pleased to be here to celebrate this important milestone with you all. I’d also like to thank Zach Yerushalmi...

Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo issued the following statement on Switzerland’s adequacy decision on the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF): “The United States welcomes the Swiss Federal Council’s finding that the Swiss-U.S. DPF provides an adequate level of protection to transfer personal data from Switzerland to the United States. Effective September 15, 2024, this change...

This week, the U.S. Department of Commerce held the first in-person meetings of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) Agreement’s Supply Chain Council on Thursday, September 12, followed by the Crisis Response Network on Friday, September 13. The IPEF Supply Chain Council meeting, chaired by the United States, included representatives from all IPEF member countries: Australia...

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo released the following statement after the Biden-Harris Administration announced actions to address the significant increased use of the de minimis exemption, in particular from Chinese e-commerce platforms, and to protect American consumers, workers, retailers, importers, and manufacturers. “American workers and businesses can outcompete anyone on a...

Thank you, Assistant Secretary Harris. Thanks to chairs Ursula and Jeff, and to our speakers. Yesterday we held our inaugural Supply Chain Summit, and it was a great moment to reflect on how far we’ve come. Following the COVID supply chain challenges, we embraced a whole of government approach to address supply chain gaps. It’s truly remarkable to see what has happened in the last four year – not...

The U.S. Department of Commerce is excited to celebrate the first graduating class of Customer Experience (CX) Champions and CX Advocates. These 50 graduates are the Department’s newest champions and advocates for improving CX. They successfully completed industry-leading customer experience curricula provided to the Department by Forrester Research, Inc. Representing nearly every bureau and most...