Department of Commerce(DOC)

Invest in cloud-native statistical production, patent and trademark workflow tools, weather-data APIs, standards testbeds, and export-control case management.

Small firms face multiple Commerce front doors. A shared business account should tell firms which export, patent, standards, and grant paths apply without forcing them to learn the org chart.

Overlap with SBA, USDA, DOE, FCC, and State is often useful; the fix is shared intake, common recipient identifiers, and published division of labor.

Do not hollow out statistical independence, weather operations, or technical standards capacity; those are public infrastructure, not overhead.

Make Commerce the federal government's economic-intelligence and standards spine: common data platforms, faster licensing and patent service, and grants measured by delivered capacity rather than announcements.