The report, titled “America’s Chip-for-Chip Tariff Policy: The Urgent Fight to Reclaim Industrial Independence Before It’s Too Late,” finds that the United States now produces only 10 percent of the world’s chips—and almost none of the most advanced ones—while China has captured the majority of global capacity for legacy chips, the mature semiconductors essential to cars, medical devices, and industrial equipment.| Coalition For A Prosperous America
The annual implementation report recommends reversing Trump administration budget cuts, empowering the national cyber director and other steps. The post US ‘slipping’ on cybersecurity, annual Cyberspace Solarium Commission report concludes appeared first on CyberScoop.| CyberScoop
The Trump administration’s Section 232 investigation into pharmaceutical imports is reportedly close to being final. The final investigation’s success will depend largely on whether or not the Commerce Department determines that there is a crisis in the generics industry — an issue that President Trump highlighted back in 2023.| Coalition For A Prosperous America
In a letter to the Commerce Department, Warren blasts the actual deal between the Trump administration and Intel, even as she supports the concept of equity stakes.| The American Prospect
Shoppers spent at a healthy pace in July even as President Donald Trump's tariffs start to take a toll on jobs and lead to some price increases.| Maryland Daily Record
DOE’s national labs play a big role in the TEST AI Act, which would establish a testbed pilot to develop and refine measurement standards used to assess AI systems.| FedScoop
According to the news agency Reuters, via Reddit, hackers believed to be working for Russia have been targeting the U.S. Treasury and the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration by monitoring internal email traffic for months. The Commerce Department confirmed in a statement the breach at one of its agencies: “We have asked the […]| TechTheLead
The Commerce Department’s Tech Hubs program could lead to the development of tools eventually bought by the federal government, officials said.| FedScoop