By Karen Kidd | Feb 18, 2022
U.S. Department of Commerce Deputy Secretary Don Graves recently recalled aspirations of fallen civil rights advocate Martin Luther King Jr. during an appearance in Maryland.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 18, 2022
The United States is enduring a period of divisiveness and its diversity is one of its strengths, U.S. Commerce Department Secretary Gina Raimondo said.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 17, 2022
New Mexico and the Navajo Nation will receive $4 million of almost $725 million in recently announced federal abandoned mine land reclamation funds, an Albuquerque-area news outlet reported earlier this week
By Karen Kidd | Feb 17, 2022
The Department of the Interior announced Feb. 7 that the Biden administration is making nearly $725 million in fiscal year 22 funding available to 22 states and the Navajo Nation to create jobs and reclaim abandoned mines.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 16, 2022
The U.S. Department of Transportation recently announcement of $69 million in additional payroll protection support to protect 31,000 aviation manufacturing jobs nationwide will support the industry's "robust recovery," transportation's secretary said in a news release
By Karen Kidd | Feb 16, 2022
The Federal Aviation Administration recently announced new testing phase to safely integrate drones into the nation's airspace will begin with field testing, according to an FAA news release
By Karen Kidd | Feb 16, 2022
Students across the nation are gearing up for the U.S. Department of Energy's 32nd annual National Science Bowl this spring.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 16, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy's $18 million for accelerator science and nuclear physics technology research and development, announced last week, will maintain the United States' leadership position in those fields, according to a news release
By Karen Kidd | Feb 16, 2022
With the help of funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), University of Texas at Austin engineers are working toward a sodium-sulfur "dream" battery that would break through in long-standing commercial viability hurdles, according to a university news release.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 15, 2022
Business leaders from Ford Motor Company and the Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association were among those in a U.S. Commerce Department news release applauding Congress for passage of a $52 billion semiconductor chips funding law
By Karen Kidd | Feb 15, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor will reportedly hire 100 new wage and hour investigators as part of its "significantly more hiring activity" expected later this year, the division acting administrator said in a news release.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 15, 2022
The U.S. Department of Commerce is sensitive to open-source software security concerns and is listening to what cyber experts have to say, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo said during a recent conference.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 15, 2022
The U.S. State Department has placed an up to $10 million bounty on the head of Sanaullah Ghafari, leader of the Islamic State’s "Khorasan Province," ISIS-K, in Afghanistan, according to a news release
By Karen Kidd | Feb 15, 2022
Research by a Missouri not-for-profit research institute, funded in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, has produced a three-dimensional imaging method for plants, according to a news release and paper
By Karen Kidd | Feb 15, 2022
Individuals who received nonfraudulent overpayment of unemployment insurance benefits during the still on-going pandemic may benefit from "blanket waiver" recovery under new federal guidelines
By Karen Kidd | Feb 15, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced selection of Springfield, Missouri as a Brownfields job training program grant recipient is an investment in the city's people, a regional administrator said in a news release
By Karen Kidd | Feb 15, 2022
Japanese steel products now now are being imported into the United States without tariffs imposed by the Trump-era authorization under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, according to a recent news release.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 15, 2022
The still ongoing pandemic is making things hard for the nation's families, particularly those without good internet access, and that's bad for the economy, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo said during a recent meeting of governors.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 14, 2022
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expanded use of "Chatty Beetle" devices, among other things, to help with communications issues cause by a south Pacific eruption in January, according to a more recent news release
By Karen Kidd | Feb 11, 2022
Specialty-crop producers now have access to $72.9 million in block grants through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Specialty Crop Block Grant Program, the department announced recently.
