[Federal Register: April 3, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 63)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--NIST Tip Joint Venture on Cyber-Enabled Smart 
Infrastructure

    Notice is hereby given that, on February 27, 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''), NIST TIP Joint Venture on 
Cyber-enabled Smart Infrastructure (``CSI'') has filed written 
notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal 
Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties to the 
venture and (2) the nature and objectives of the venture. The 
notifications were filed for the purpose of invoking the Act's 
provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual 
damages under specified circumstances.
    Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act, the identities of the parties 
to the venture are: The Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann 
Arbor, MI; SC Solutions, Sunnyvale, CA; Weidlinger Associates, Inc., 
New York, NY; Li, Fisher, Lepech & Associates, Ann Arbor, MI; Monarch 
Antenna, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI; and Prospect Solutions, LLC, Loudonville, 
NY. The general area of CSI's planned activity is to conduct research 
to formulate and demonstrate a cost effective, cyber-enabled 
comprehensive structural monitoring system assembled from 
transformative sensor technologies to detect and analyze bridge health.

Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. E9-7365 Filed 4-2-09; 8:45 am]

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