[Federal Register: March 26, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 57)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium, 
Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on February 18, 2009, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act'') Network Centric Operations 
Industry Consortium, Inc. has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing changes in its membership. The notifications were 
filed for the purpose of extending the Act's provisions limiting the 
recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages

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under specified circumstances. Specifically, Assistant Secretary of 
Defense for Networks & Information Integration and Department of 
Defense Chief Information Officer, Washington, DC; MIT Lincoln 
Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and Dataline, LLC, McLean, VA have been 
added as parties to this venture.
    Also, Sikorsky Aircraft, Stratford, CT; Ericsson Federal Inc., 
Columbia, MD; Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL; Institute for Defense 
Analyses, Alexandria, VA; Insta Group, Tampere, Finland; DataPath, 
Inc., Duluth, GA; Management and Engineering Technologies 
International, Inc., El Paso, TX; CAE, St-Laurent, Quebec City, CANADA; 
U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Information Systems Agency, Falls 
Church, VA; Meteksan Defence Industry Inc., Ankara, TURKEY; and Iridium 
Satellite LLC, Bethesda, MD have withdrawn as parties to this venture. 
In addition, ITT Industries changed its name to ITT Corporation, White 
Plains, NY. In the past ninety (90) days, the Joint Venture learned 
that MilSOFT Yazilirn Teknolojileri A.S., Ankara, Turkey did not change 
its name to MilSOFT ICT-Iletisim Teknolojileri A.S., as noted in the 
Joint Venture's notification filed under the Act on October 12, 2007. 
Rather, in October of 2007, MilSOFT Yazilim Teknolojileri A.S. 
transferred its membership in the Joint Venture to MilSOFT ICT-Iletisim 
Teknolojileri A.S., Ankara, Turkey, an affiliate and sister company of 
MilSOFT Yazilim Teknolojileri A.S.
    No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned 
activity of the group research project. Membership in this group 
research project remains open, and Network Centric Operations Industry 
Consortium, Inc. intends to file additional written notifications 
disclosing all changes in membership.
    On November 19, 2004, Network Centric Operations Industry 
Consortium, Inc. filed its original notification pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the Act. The Department of Justice published a notice in the 
Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on February 2, 
2005 (70 FR 5486).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on November 26, 
2008. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on December 31, 2008 (73 FR 80430).

Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. E9-6374 Filed 3-25-09; 8:45 am]