Secretary’s Message 1
Commerce Overview2
Strategic Goal 1 – Accelerate American Leadership3
Expand Commercial Space Activities4
Advance Innovation 5
Strengthen Intellectual Property Protection7
Strategic Goal 2 – Enhance Job Creation8
Increase Aquaculture Production 9
Reduce and Streamline Regulations 10
Strengthen Domestic Commerce and the U.S. Industrial Base 11
Increase U.S. Exports13
Increase Inward Investment Into the United States15
Strategic Goal 3 – Strengthen U SEconomic and National Security 16
Enforce the Nation’s Trade Laws and Security Laws 17
Enhance the Nation’s Cybersecurity 19
Reduce Extreme Weather Impacts 20
Deploy Public Safety Broadband21
Strategic Goal 4 – Fulfll Constitutional Requirements
and Support Economic Activity22
Conduct a Full, Fair, and Accurate Decennial Census 23
Provide Accurate Data to Support Economic Activity24
Strategic Goal 5 – Deliver Customer-Centric Service Excellence 25
Engage Commerce Employees26
Accelerate Information Technology Modernization27
Consolidate Functions for Cost Savings 28
Appendices 29
A – Performance Management and Governance29
B – Evidence, Learning, and Data 31
C – Summary of Contributing Bureaus by Strategic Objective 33
Contents
I
’m excited to present the U.S. Department of
Commerce’s 2018–2022 Strategic Plan. It sets out the
priorities I’ve established for the Department and informs
the public about our important work.
The Department of Commerce has one overarching
purpose: Helping the American Economy Grow.
American workers and businesses operate in a rapidly
changing and increasingly competitive world. To address
these challenges, we have developed bold new strategies
to accelerate and promote U.S. economic growth and
opportunity.
Knowing that innovation is a key driver of economic advancement, we are placing an increased emphasis on the
commercial opportunities of space exploration and aquaculture, while our scientists are conducting foundational
research in areas ranging from artifcial intelligence to quantum computing. Our patent professionals are also working
to improve the protection of intellectual property so that creators can proft from their inventions.
U.S. businesses must export more, and our workers deserve a level playing feld. Enforcing our trade laws to ensure
that trade is free, fair, and reciprocal is a top priority of the Department. We are also joining with all federal agencies
in cutting red tape that drives up costs and puts American workers and businesses at a disadvantage.
To maintain America’s leadership in next-generation technologies, we are making important advances in data,
cybersecurity, and encryption technology. Our economists and statisticians are improving Commerce data that
American businesses and communities use to plan investments and identify growth opportunities. Every level of the
Department will be engaged to ensure that we conduct the most accurate, secure, and technologically-advanced
decennial census in history.
Finally, teams across the Department are working to keep Americans safe by predicting extreme weather events
earlier and more accurately, preventing sensitive technology from getting in the hands of terrorists, rogue regimes,
and strategic competitors, and deploying a nationwide public safety broadband network that allows better
coordination among frst responders.
Thank you to every employee at the Department and to our industry and government partners for your dedication
to our mission.
Thank you,
Wilbur Ross
U.S. Secretary of Commerce
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Mission
The Department of Commerce creates the conditions
for economic growth and opportunity.
History and Enabling Legislation
The Department of Commerce was originally established
by Congressional Act on February 14, 1903 as the
Department of Commerce and Labor (32 Stat. 826;
5 U.S.C. 591) and was subsequently renamed the U.S.
Department of Commerce by President William H. Taft
on March 4, 1913 (15 U.S.C. 1512). The defned role
of the new Department was “to foster, promote, and
develop the foreign and domestic commerce, the
mining, manufacturing, and fshery industries of the
United States.”
Location
The Department is headquartered in Washington, D.C.,
at the Herbert Clark Hoover Building, which is located
on eight acres of land covering three city blocks. The
Department also has feld offces in every state and
territory and maintains offces in more than 86 countries
worldwide.
Employees
As of January 2018, the Department had approximately
47,000 employees.
Headquarters Offces and Bureaus
Offce of the Secretary (OS)
Offce of Inspector General (OIG)
Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
Census Bureau (Census)
International Trade Administration (ITA)
Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA)
National Telecommunications and Information
Administration (NTIA)
National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
U.S. Patent and Trademark Offce (USPTO)
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