Targeting the Department of Commerce with production ML discipline
Precision Federal is targeting opportunities at the Department of Commerce. We do not claim direct Commerce past performance. What we bring is a production ATO'd federal ML system at SAMHSA — and Commerce AI scope demands exactly the same engineering posture: privacy-preserving ML, audit-grade provenance, production monitoring, and regulated-data discipline applied to economic statistics, patent records, trade flows, and export controls.
Commerce is a sprawling department with twelve operating bureaus, approximately 50,000 employees, and some of the most AI-relevant data surfaces in government — from decennial Census microdata to 300 years of USPTO patent records to BIS export-control entity lists. Precision Delivery Federal LLC (UEI Y2JVCZXT9HP5, CAGE 1AYQ0, SAM.gov active) is aligned for Commerce AI scopes where production ML, agentic AI, and federal governance discipline are the durable differentiators.
Commerce bureaus we target on this page
- U.S. Census Bureau — Decennial Census, American Community Survey (ACS), Economic Census, population estimates. One of the largest federal data producers.
- USPTO — United States Patent and Trademark Office. Patent examination, trademark examination, patent-search AI, self-funding through fees.
- ITA — International Trade Administration. Trade data, tariff analytics, market-access analytics.
- BIS — Bureau of Industry and Security. Export controls under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), Entity List, end-user screening.
- BEA — Bureau of Economic Analysis. GDP, personal income, international trade statistics, regional accounts.
- NTIA — National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Broadband data, BEAD program analytics, spectrum management.
- EDA — Economic Development Administration. Regional development grants and analytics.
- MBDA — Minority Business Development Agency.
- Commerce CDO and Office of the Secretary — Department-wide data strategy.
NOAA and NIST have dedicated pages
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are Commerce bureaus, but each has a distinct AI acquisition path, research culture, and data surface — NOAA with massive geospatial, weather, and oceanographic data streams and NIST with measurement-science research and the federal AI Safety Institute. Those bureaus are covered on their own dedicated agency pages.
Commerce AI mission areas mapped to our capability
Census data processing and disclosure avoidance
Census is a leader in applying differential privacy and other privacy-preserving techniques to protected microdata. ML for data quality, imputation, non-response follow-up, and adaptive design on the ACS fits our stack. Our data engineering experience transfers.
USPTO patent examination and prior-art search AI
USPTO processes ~600,000 patent applications annually. Prior-art search, claim-language analysis, classification augmentation (CPC codes), and LLM-assisted office-action drafting are active priorities. Agentic LLM systems with RAG over the patent corpus and human-in-the-loop examination gates. See Agentic AI.
ITA trade analytics and tariff classification
Harmonized Tariff Schedule classification ML, country-specific market-access analytics, and foreign-investment data analytics. NLP on trade barriers and regulatory texts.
BIS export-control screening and entity-list analytics
The Entity List, Unverified List, and Military End-User List drive export licensing decisions. Entity-resolution ML across global corporate registries, beneficial-ownership disambiguation, and LLM-assisted license-application review. Adjacent to Treasury OFAC and State CT screening.
BEA economic-statistics ML
Data quality ML on survey microdata, nowcasting models for GDP and personal income, and LLM augmentation of the Regional Economic Accounts.
NTIA broadband and BEAD analytics
The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program is a multi-billion-dollar state-executed broadband build-out. Data analytics on state sub-grantee reporting, coverage-map validation ML.
Commerce CDO cross-bureau data strategy
Data catalogs spanning Census, BEA, ITA, and BIS. Federated analytics under Title 13, Title 15, and Title 26 constraints. Our federal health IT data platform past performance transfers to cross-bureau data-strategy scope.
Title 13, Title 15, EAR, and the Commerce data protection surface
Commerce data carries specific statutory protections that shape AI design:
- Title 13 U.S.C. — confidentiality of Census data. One of the strictest statutory protections in federal data — Title 13 information can only be used for statistical purposes and carries lifetime confidentiality obligations on sworn Census personnel.
- Title 26 U.S.C. 6103 — some Census programs use IRS tax data under strict disclosure protections.
- Title 15 U.S.C. — BEA confidentiality provisions.
- EAR (15 CFR 730-774) — Export Administration Regulations administered by BIS. Dual-use items, Entity List, deemed-export considerations for AI/ML technology itself.
- FISMA Moderate and High — Census, USPTO, and BIS mission systems often run Moderate with selected High components.
- Privacy Act and SORNs — SORNs across Census, USPTO, and BIS case systems.
- NIST 800-53 and 800-171 — baseline and CUI controls across the department.
Our SAMHSA ATO experience translates: minimum necessary, access segregation, audit logging, and statute-aware release controls are the same engineering habits.
CISA is not Commerce — and why this comes up
A common point of confusion: the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is a DHS component, not a Commerce bureau. The civilian-counterpart to CISA inside Commerce is NIST's Computer Security Division, which produces NIST SP 800-53, SP 800-171, the Cybersecurity Framework, and the AI Risk Management Framework. Commerce's civilian-side cybersecurity posture for its own systems is run through the Commerce CIO and bureau CIOs, with NIST providing the government-wide standards. Our cybersecurity scope at Commerce is about hardening bureau AI systems to NIST standards, not about CISA-style operational cybersecurity. See our DevSecOps capability.
Commerce vehicles we pursue
- Census CHESS — Census Bureau IT IDIQ successor to mission-support vehicles.
- USPTO IDIQs — multiple bureau-specific vehicles given USPTO's fee-funded model.
- CIO-SP4 — NIH NITAAC government-wide.
- GSA MAS, Alliant 2, OASIS+ — standard pathways.
- SEWP VI — NASA-managed solutions.
- Commerce BPAs — department-wide and bureau-specific.
- NIST and NOAA SBIR — covered on their dedicated pages; non-NOAA/NIST Commerce SBIR is small but active.
Relevant NAICS
- Primary NAICS 541512 — Computer Systems Design Services. SBA small business.
- Adjacent — 541511, 541519, 541611, 541990, 541715 for USPTO research-flavored scopes.
How Commerce program offices and primes engage us
Three patterns:
- Commerce bureau subcontracting — to primes on AI/ML task orders at Census, USPTO, ITA, and BIS.
- Direct task order pursuit — on small-business-set-aside scopes under NAICS 541512.
- Commerce CDO and cross-bureau partnerships — on department-wide data-strategy execution.
Email [email protected]. We respond within 24 hours. See also our SBIR partnering page and machine learning capability.