The Commerce Department has an expansive list of responsibilities — from census surveys to satellites to artificial intelligence — and manages large segments of the nation’s emerging technology implementation.
The agency has spent on average $5 billion annually in contracts from fiscal 2015, pushing out spending influxes in years immediately leading up to and following the decennial census.
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More than 40% of the agency’s overall contracting dollars went to small business prime vendors, 18% higher than the average across all civilian agencies.
Satellites for the National Weather Service made up the ...
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