[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 42 (Friday, March 2, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13080-13081]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-5069]


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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 November 7, 2000, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative

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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 and planned activities. 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, Textron Company, acting through its Cessna Aircraft 
Company, Wichita, KS; and Science Applications International 
Corporation, San Diego, CA have been added as parties to this venture. 
Also, Moog Inc., East Aurora, NY has been dropped as a party to this 
venture. Additionally, the AVSI Cooperative intends to undertake the 
following joint research projects:
    ``Systems Engineering and Information Management II--Collaborative 
Development''--To investigate methods for electronic connections, 
corporate proprietary policies, and recommended tools for a prototype 
secure, electronic collaboration capability to allow multiple supplier 
participation in aerospace systems development.
    ``Tools and Best Practices for Implementing RTCA D254''--To 
generate guidance, templates, tools, key documents/artifacts and 
examples to allow aerospace electronic suppliers to efficiently 
incorporate the requirements of RTCA D254, ``Design Assurance Guidance 
for Airborne Electronic Hardware'' into their electronic hardware 
design process.
    ``Develop the `How-To' of a Qualified Compiler and Linker''--To 
develop a technical plan for the development of a qualified compiler & 
linker that can be used with auto-code generation capabilities of 
several modeling and simulation tools to improve the software 
requirement, development and validation process.
    ``Electronic Component Parts Obsolescence Forecasting Tool, Phase 1 
Software Tool Development''--To develop a software tool to forecast 
when an electronic component is likely to become obsolete in order to 
provide guidance for long term parts management.
    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 ``AVSI'' Cooperative intends to file 
additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On November 18, 1998, 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).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on June 7, 
2000. A notice has not yet been published in the Federal Register.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 01-5069 Filed 3-1-01; 8:45 am]
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