[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 55 (Tuesday, March 21, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 15174]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6957]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993; Aerospace Vehicle Systems Institute (``AVSI'') 
Cooperative

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 21, 1999, pursuant to 
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Aerospace Vehicle Systems 
Institute (``AVSI'') Cooperative has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing changes in its membership status. 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, Hamilton Standard 
Division of United Technologies Corporation and Sunstrand Corporation 
have merged to form Hamilton Sunstrand Division of United Technologies 
Corporation, Windsor Locks, CT. Additionally, the AVSI Cooperative 
intends to work on the following joint research projects:
    Systems Engineering and Information Management--To evaluate and 
develop systems engineering and information management processes and 
tools to be used at the aerospace vehicle and subsystem level for the 
efficient, industry-wide communication of requirements and 
configuration management information.
    Certification Cost Minimization--To evaluate and recommend new 
standard industry-wide processes and guidelines for both design and 
compliance methods for aerospace vehicle electrical equipment hardware 
and software that will minimize both initial and subsequent 
qualification and certification costs and cycle times.
    Defining Real Operating Environments--To establish aerospace 
vehicle system local environmental operating conditions to allow 
refinement of design requirements for subsystems, electrical and 
hardware components.
    Rapid Prototyping Tools for Flight Deck Display Systems--To produce 
a common development process and associated interface standards to 
allow rapid prototyping of flight deck and cockpit display concepts and 
to efficiently transition these concepts into avionics systems.
    Systems Bus Study--To determine whether a new databus technology 
should be developed for application to commercial aircraft and to 
evaluate the appropriate level of technologies needed in a new databus.
    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 Aerospace Vehicle Systems Institute 
(``AVSI'') Cooperative intends to file additional written notification 
disclosing all changes in membership.
    On November 18, 1998, Aerospace Vehicle Systems Institute 
(``AVSI'') Cooperative 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 
18, 1999 (64 FR 8123).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-6957 Filed 3-20-00; 8:45 am]
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