National Cooperative Research and Production Act Notifications: Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium, Inc.

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Federal Register: December 31, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 251)

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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 November 26, 2008, 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 under specified circumstances. Specifically, Solera Networks, Lindon, UT has been added as a party to this venture. Also, Advanced Virtual Engine Test Cell,

Inc., Springfield, OH; Chandler/May, Inc., Huntsville, AL; PrismTech

Corporation, Burlington, MA; Intelligent Automation, Inc., Rockville,

MD; and Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA have withdrawn as parties to this venture.

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 September 5, 2008. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act on October 21, 2008 (73 FR 62542).

Patricia A. Brink,

Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.

FR Doc. E8-31041 Filed 12-30-08; 8:45 am

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