; (8) while other Federal agencies focus on broader demographic and emerging businesses, MBDA focuses exclusively on the unique needs of minority-owned businesses and enhancing the capacity and reach of medium and large scale minority-owned firms; and (9) MBDA’s national network of business centers is critical to assisting minority-owned businesses gain access to capital, contracts, and new markets through public-private engagement. Therefore, Congress must continue to invest in the MBDA business centers, as they provide direct services to minority-owned businesses. (b) Purpose It is, therefore, the purpose of this Act to— (1) establish an Administration within the Department of Commerce which will promote and administer programs in the private and public sectors to assist the development of business owned by the disadvantaged; and (2) achieve such development through the conduct of programs which will result in increased access to skilled labor, capital, management, and technology by such business. 3. Definitions As used in this Act the following terms have the following meanings: (1) The term Secretary means the Secretary of Commerce. (2) The terms State , States , and United States include the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the territories of the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. (3) The terms socially and economically disadvantaged business concerns and disadvantaged business means any for-profit business enterprise which is at least 51 percent owned by one or more socially and economically disadvantaged individuals; or, in the case of any publicly owned business, at least 51 percent of the stock of which is owned by one or more socially and economically disadvantaged individuals