The Department is now seeking to recruit top-level candidates to serve on the committee U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo today announced that the Commerce Department has established a high-level committee to advise the President and other federal agencies on a range of issues related to artificial intelligence (AI). Working with the National AI Initiative Office (NAIIO) in the White House...

Today, Secretary Raimondo met with European Commission Executive Vice President (EVP) Valdis Dombrovskis at the Tallinn Digital Summit in Tallinn, Estonia. During their meeting, the Secretary and EVP Dombrovskis discussed the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC) and the progress of certain working groups under the direction of U.S. and European TTC lead agencies. Secretary Raimondo and EVP...

Today, Secretary Raimondo met with Estonian Prime Minister, Kaja Kallas ahead of the Tallinn Digital Summit in Tallinn, Estonia. During their meeting, Secretary Raimondo and Prime Minister Kallas discussed the importance of promoting increased commercial partnership and collaboration on emerging technologies and countering unfair non-market economy practices. They also exchanged views on...

United States Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo will be in Tallinn September 6 and 7, where she will participate in the Tallinn Digital Summit and hold bilateral meetings. Secretary Raimondo is the first senior official from the Biden Administration to visit Estonia and the first Cabinet-level official to visit since 2019. During her trip to Estonia, Secretary Raimondo will meet with a number...

On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo met with Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Oleksiy Lyubchenko in Washington, DC to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) outlining areas of renewed cooperation on trade. The MOU also notes U.S. support for Ukrainian efforts to improve its business and investment climate, which could help to increase U.S.-Ukraine...

Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo and Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher hosted a roundtable discussion focused on critical cybersecurity challenges facing our country. With representatives from industry and academia, the group emphasized a collective imperative to increase engagement and collaboration on emerging best practices to combat increased cyber threats to our energy sector...

Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo joined President Biden, senior Administration officials and private sector leaders to discuss how to improve the nation’s cybersecurity and foster stronger collaboration across the public and private sector to address cybersecurity challenges. As part of the summit, Secretary Raimondo and Small Business Administrator Isabel Guzman met with...

WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Senate passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act on a broad bipartisan vote of 69-30. This historic bill includes many of President Joe Biden’s economic priorities, including record investments in minority-owned businesses, broadband infrastructure, expanded funding to track and address climate change, while also including the largest-ever federal investments...