Department of Commerce(DOC)
Cabinet department for economic statistics, weather and oceans, standards, patents and trademarks, trade promotion, export controls, telecommunications policy, and industrial programs.
Function
Cabinet department
Parent
Top-level (no parent)
FY2026 Budget Authority
$50.95B
Official Data
USAspending.govEvidence & Review
Evidence Confidence
HighVerification Status
AI-researched, unverifiedLast Reviewed
Jul 5, 2026
Retrieved On
Jul 5, 2026
Effectiveness Baseline
Performance.gov publishes Commerce goals and learning materials; USA.gov lists major bureaus including Census, NOAA, NIST, NTIA, USPTO, ITA, and BIS.
Efficiency Opportunities
Consolidate grant reporting across NTIA, EDA, and CHIPS-like programs; reuse geospatial, business, and demographic data services across bureaus instead of rebuilding them.
Effectiveness Opportunities
Treat NOAA warnings, Census data quality, patent pendency, export-control licensing speed, and grant deployment accuracy as public-value outputs.