It all seems reasonable to me. The companies have reasonable concerns about proprietary data and the Commerce Dept. needs some of it to resolve the issues that the Federal Administration tasked them to work on. Commerce doesn’t have a good reason to share proprietary information since their people not the government in general can’t legally make money off it. I have worked with high tech partners that would share some things with an NDA in place, but there are other things they would never share. I think unauthorized sharing of proprietary data that is legally obtained is industrial espionage and I would start with less important secrets and see how Commerce manages the interface.
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