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Operational ExcellenceAbout the U.S. Department of Commerce

Jan192017

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Better HR through Better IT: A Theoretical Limit in Practice

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What does an improved safety culture have to do with making hiring easier and faster? A lot, it turns out, if you work at NIST. In the spring of 2014, Paul O’Neill, former...

Jan132017

President Barack Obama talks with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) recipients in the East Room of the White House, April 14, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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President Honors Researchers and Scientists at NIST and NOAA for Innovative Research

Operational ExcellencePresidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

Earlier this week, President Obama named 102 scientists and researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the...

Jan122017

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Empowering Employees through Leadership and Commitment

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In 2013, the “Best Places to Work in the Federal Government” rankings from the Partnership for Public Service placed the Economic Development Administration (EDA) last in...

Jan052017

Department of Commerce employees prepare to attend the My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) Initiative Volunteer Recruitment Fair on August 17, 2016

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My Brother’s Keeper: How Commerce has Created Pathways to Success in the Workforce for our Nation's Youth

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In 2014, President Obama launched the My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) initiative to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color and to ensure that all...

Jan052017

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker Highlights Key Departmental Accomplishments During Obama Administration

Operational ExcellenceOpen for Business AgendaPenny Pritzker

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today submitted her exit memorandum to President Obama highlighting the Department of Commerce’s major accomplishments that helped...

Jan052017

Cabinet Exit Memo by Secretary Penny Pritzker

Operational ExcellenceOpen for Business AgendaPenny Pritzker

The Department of Commerce (the Department) sits at the intersection of all business and economic issues, both domestically and abroad. A single mission unites our 12 bureaus...

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Enterprise Services: Mission and Values

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Our Mission To provide innovative, data-driven, and customer-centric mission enabling services that enable our Commerce colleagues to dedicate themselves wholly to creating...

Dec162016

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Bruce Andrews Delivers Remarks at Launch of U.S. National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct

Operational ExcellenceTrade and InvestmentU.S. National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct (NAP RBC)

Today, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Bruce Andrews delivered opening remarks at the launch event for the U.S. National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct (NAP...

Nov292016

Commerce Partners with Small Business Administration for the Launch of Business Sunday in Houston, Texas

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The Impact of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

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For the last eight years, the Department of Commerce has had a robust relationship with faith communities and non-profit organizations. This has taken place through the...

Oct132016

Secretary Pritzker (center) at the Hispanic Entrepreneurship Summit in June 2016

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Hispanic Heritage Month: Celebrating the Contributions and Hopes of Latino Entrepreneurs

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At the Department of Commerce, we were thrilled to see our latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau show that in 2015, poverty fell, wages rose, and health care coverage...

Oct122016

Steve Haro, Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, interacts with colleagues in his office.

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Spotlight on Commerce: Steve Haro, Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs

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In this fast-paced, uber-connected, technology-engrossing bubble that is Washington, D.C., few of us truly have the time to sit quietly, focus and reflect. On anything. That...

Oct052016

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Secretary Pritzker Participates in Panel Discussion Focused on Presidential Transition

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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker participated in a panel discussion on “The Business of Transition” at the Partnership for Public Service (PPS). She joined former...

Oct062016

George Laws Garcia, Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs Specialist, Minority Business Development Agency

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Spotlight on Commerce: George Laws Garcia, Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs Specialist, Minority Business Development Agency

About the U.S. Department of CommerceOperational ExcellenceSpotlight on CommerceHispanic Heritage Month

As part of the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) I work to engage Congressional, state and local officials to help create favorable conditions for minority...

Oct052016

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Spotlight on Commerce: Yamali Hernandez, NIST Center for Neutron Research

About the U.S. Department of CommerceOperational ExcellenceSpotlight on CommerceHispanic Heritage Month

While writing this blog in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage month I had the opportunity to think about the importance of my job, my relationship with the people...

Oct042016

Karen Garcia, Special Advisor to the Executive Director of SelectUSA

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Spotlight on Commerce: Karen Garcia, Special Advisor to the Executive Director of SelectUSA

About the U.S. Department of CommerceOperational ExcellenceSpotlight on CommerceHispanic Heritage Month

As Special Advisor to the Executive Director of SelectUSA, I advise the Executive Director on a range of policy and operational processes that allow us to use the convening...

Sep272016

NIST Team Wins 2016 Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award

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NIST Employees Honored with First-Ever Department of Commerce Ron Brown Award for Cutting-Edge Research in Brain Injury, Cancer

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Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker attended the Department of Commerce’s 68th Annual Honor Awards Ceremony, during which she recognized 286 employees with Gold...

Sep122016

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker Announces 2016 Market Development Cooperator Program Award Recipients

Trade and InvestmentOperational ExcellenceMarket Development Cooperator Program (MDCP)

Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker announced the five recipients of the Department’s 2016 Market Development Cooperator Program (MDCP) awards. The American...

Aug312016

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Commerce Employees Commit Time to DC Youth for MBK Initiative

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With the busy schedules of today, it is hard to imagine being able to do more than work, eat and sleep. Yet, this month, nearly fifty (50) Department of Commerce (DOC)...

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Department of Commerce FITARA Actions and Milestones Table - 11-30-16

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Element Area Milestone Number Actions and Milestones extracted from Agency FITARA Action Plan Target Completion Date Status Status Description Not Started, In Progress,...

Aug122016

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Phased Retirement Implementation at the Department of Commerce

Operational ExcellenceLabor Management

Congress and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) initiated a new policy called phased retirement. While OPM began the process, they left it up to Departments to...

Aug012016

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Commerce Department’s Environmental Sustainability Efforts Create a More Efficient Workplace for Employees

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The U.S. Department of Commerce is dedicated to promoting environmental sustainability, making the environment one of its five core pillars of its strategic plan. The...

Jul292016

Lynda Roark receiving her award from Willie May

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NIST Role Models for Operational Excellence

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At the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), operational excellence takes many forms, from installing and researching solar panel arrays that provide clean,...

Jul272016

USPTO employees encouraging participation in the 2016 USPTO Innovation Challenge

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USPTO and 21st Century Governance

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Guided by the principle that successful organizations routinely re-evaluate how essential responsibilities are executed, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) daily...

Jul272016

Secretary Pritzker Speaking to Commerce Department Interns at an Armchair Discussion

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Secretary Pritzker Stresses Importance of Public Service with Commerce Department Interns

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As many college students prepare to head back to school, interns at the U.S. Department of Commerce had a unique opportunity to hear from U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny...

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Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Analysis
Deputy Under Secretary for International Trade
Secretary of Commerce
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Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration
Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere and Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Under Secretary for Industry and Security
Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary for Administration
Under Secretary of Commerce For Intellectual Property and USPTO Director
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Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator
Director of the U.S. Census Bureau
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Director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis
Minority Business Development Agency National Director
Minority Business Development Agency Acting National Director
National Technical Information Service Director
Inspector General
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Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs
Counselor, Delegated Duties of Under Secretary for Economic Affairs
Chief Economist
Chief Information Officer
Chief of Staff to the Secretary
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Director of Policy and Strategic Planning
Director of the Office of Public Affairs
Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary
Director of the Office of Business Liaison
Director of the Office of Executive Secretariat
Deputy Chief Economist
Director of the Office of White House Liaison
Senior Adviser to the Secretary
Senior Adviser on Native American Affairs
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Director of Digital Economy
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2014 Metropolitan Area Export Overview
2015 Spring Travel Forecast
2016 Census Test
2016 Hispanic-American Entrepreneurship Summit
2020 Census
21st Century American Economy
21st Century Ports Initiative
Aaron Trujillo
Adam Enbar
Advanced Manufacturing
Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP)
Advanced Manufacturing Technology Consortia (AMTech)
Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness (ACSCC)
African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)
Alan Davidson
Albert Shen
Alejandra Y. Castillo
Alexa von Tobel
Alistair Jessop
All in STEM initiative
Alternative Questionnaire Experiment (AQE)
America COMPETES Act
America Georgia Business Council (AGBC)
America Invents Act (AIA)
America Makes Institute
America's Data Agency
America's Economy App
America's Innovation Agency
American Association of Community Colleges (AACC)
American Central European Business Association (ACEBA)
American Community Survey (ACS)
American Housing Survey
American Indian and Alaska Native communities (AIAN)
American Meteorological Society (AMS)
American-Turkish Society
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
AmeriCorps
Ana Maria Rey
Andrea Pacheco Dhamer
Andrew Liveris
Anne Neville
Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs
Anthony Foxx
Anticorruption
Antonis Samaras
Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
Apprenticeship
Arctic Report Card
Argentina
Argo Merchant
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
Asian American Pacific Islander
Aspen Institute Workforce Strategies Initiative (AspenWSI)
Assess Costs Everywhere (ACE)
Association of South East Nations (ASEAN)
Atlantic Hurricane Season
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August Milestone Update
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Basic Guide to Exporting
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Brand USA
Brian C. Moyer
Brian Chesky
Broadband
Broadband Data Improvement Act
Broadband Opportunity Council
Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP)
BroadbandUSA
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Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Annual Update Conference
Business Development Mission to Japan and South Korea
Business Forward
Business Software Alliance (BSA)
Business Sunday
BusinessUSA
Canada
Carnegie Mellon
Carol Hockert
Caroline Atkinson
Cecelia Royster
Cecilia Rouse
Census Bureau Facts for Features
Census Business Builder
Census Explorer
Census Pop Quiz
Census Scientific Advisory Committee
Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)
Charlotte Haberaecker
Chief Data Scientist
Chief Economist Sue Helper
Chief Judge Merrick Garland
China
China Trade Mission
Christine Lagarde
Chuck Hagel
CitySDK
Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee (CINTAC)
Clean Energy Patent Growth Index
Clean Energy Technology
Clemson University
Climate Action Plan
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Climate Data Initiative
Climate Resilience Toolkit
Cluster Mapping
Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper
Coastal Resiliency
Colin Parris
Collegiate Inventors Competition
Colorado
Combined Federal Campaign (CFC)
Commerce Data Advisory Council (CDAC)
Commerce Data Service
Commerce Data Usability Project (CDUP)
Commerce in the Community
Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee (CSMAC)
Commerce Stakeholder Brief
Commercial Diplomacy
Commercial Diplomacy Institute (CDI)
Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP)
Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity
Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing
Communities that Work Partnership
Community Resilience
Community Resilience Center of Excellence
Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure
Competitiveness
Composite Recycling Technology Center (CRTR)
Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Congressman Jim Clyburn
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Congresswoman Kathy Castor
Consolidated Screening List (CSL)
Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
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Current Population Survey (CPS)
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Cybersecurity Framework for Critical Infrastructure
Cybersecurity National Action Plan
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Data Explorer
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Dee Alexander
Deep Space Climate Observatory
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Defend Trade Secrets Act
Deputy Secretary of Energy Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall
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Digital Economy
Digital Economy Board of Advisors
Digital Nation
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Digital Strategy
Discover Global Markets Forum
DOC-METI Commercial Dialogue
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Framework for Revitalizing American Manufacturing
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Internet Policy Task Force (IPTF)
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IT Veteran Hiring Fair
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Japan
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
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Jobs Report
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John Hickenlooper
John Kerry
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John Thompson
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Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
Make It In America Challenge
Making Income Data Available as a Service (MIDAAS)
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
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Manufacturing Council
Manufacturing Day
Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP)
Manufacturing USA
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Marine Debris
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Mark Doms
Mark Schaefer
Market Development Cooperator Program (MDCP)
Martin Luther King Day of Service
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Materials Genome Initiative
Matt Erskine
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Measuring Alternative Educational Credentials
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National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
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National Congress of the American Indians (NCAI)
National Council of La Raza (NCLR)
National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
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National Day of Civic Hacking
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National Electrical Manufacturers Association
National Entrepreneurship Month
National Excess Manufacturing Capacity Catalogue (NEXCAP)
National Export Initiative (NEI)
National Fire Protection Association
National Football League (NFL)
National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC)
National Hurricane Center
National Hurricane Preparedness Week
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE)
National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL)
National Inventors Hall of Fame
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National Medal of Technology and Innovation
National Minimum Wage Day
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National Ocean Month
National Park Service
National Prepardness Month
National Retail Federation
National Seafood Month
National Security
National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC)
National Severe Weather Preparedness Week
National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace
National Trademark Expo
National Travel and Tourism Strategy
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National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program
National Urban League
National Water Center
National Water Model
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National Week of Making
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Next Generation Radar
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NIST Summer Institute for Middle School Science Teachers
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NOAA Big Data Project
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NOAA Ship Ferdinand R. Hassler
NOAA Weather Radio
NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R)
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North American Competitiveness and Innovation Conference (NACIC)
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
North American Leaders’ Summit (NALS)
North Carolina
Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument
November Milestone Update
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Ocean Noise
Ocean Week
Oceans
Office of Coast Survey
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Okeanos Explorer
On the Map for Emergency Management
OnTheMap
Open Cloud Consortium
Open Data
Open for Business Agenda
Open for Innovation Day
Open Government (OpenGov)
Operation Hope
Opportunity Index
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
Pakistan
Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
Paris Air Show
Partnership for Refugees
Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization (POWER) Initiative
PATENT Act
Patent Act of 1790
Patent Examiner Technical Training Program
Patent Public Advisory Committee
Patent reform
Patents for Humanity
PatentsView
Patrick Gallagher
Patrick Mchenry
pay gap
PayPal
Pearl Harbor
Pena Nieto
Penny Pritzker
PEPFAR
Personal Income
Peru Trade Mission
Petro Poroshenko
Phu Huynh
Physical Oceanographic Real-time System
Plain Language
Plug and Play Tech Center
Poland
Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy
Population Estimates
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Poverty
Power Africa
Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework
President Barack Obama
President of China Xi Jinping
President's Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA)
President's Export Council (PEC)
Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship (PAGE)
Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)
President’s FY 2017 Budget
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
Prime Minister Saikhanbileg
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Privacy Act
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Public Service Leadership Award
Public Service Recognition Week
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Qualcomm
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Rajiv Shah
Rebecca Blank
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Regional Cybersecurity Summit
Regional Innovation Challenge
Regional Innovation Cluster Initiative
Regional Innovation Strategies Program (RIS)
Regional Investments to Support Entrepreneurship (RISE)
Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Advisory Committee (REEEAC)
Reorganization
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Representative Terri Sewell
Research and Development
Research Experience for Teachers
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RESTORE Act
Revitalize American Manufacturing Innovation (RAMI) Act
Rich Barton
RIMS II
Robert Wolf
Robotics
Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren
Ron Brown
Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award
Ron Brown Scholar Program
Rural Exports
Rural Jobs and Innovation Accelerator
Russell Slifer
Sabrina Moyle
Safe Harbor Framework
SAIS
Saudi Arabia
SC2 Visioning Challenge
Science
Science and technology
Science On a Sphere®
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)
Seattle
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Secretary of Labor
Secretary of State John Kerry
Secretary of Treasury
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SelectUSA South America Road Show
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Senator Richard Shelby
Senator Tim Kaine
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Small Business Administration
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program
Small Business Week
Smart Cities
Smart Cities Infrastructure Business Development Mission to India
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Smart Fabrics
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Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC)
SmartAmerica Challenge
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South by Southwest
South Korea
Southern Idaho Economic Development Organization
Space
Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC)
Spark Global Entrepreneurship Initiative
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