[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 155 (Friday, August 10, 2001)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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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 June 18, 2001, 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 and project 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, TRW Ltd., Shirley, 
West Midlands, United Kingdom, acting through its TRW Aeronautical 
Systems division, Solihull, United Kingdom has been added as a party to 
this venture. Additionally, the AVSI Cooperative intends to undertake 
the following joint research projects:
    ``No Fault Found and Maintenance Costs''--To combine avionics 
component in-service information from systems suppliers, OEMs and 
airline operators to develop a better understanding of No Fault Found 
in LRU maintenance operations to improve system/LRU diagnostic and 
maintenance practices. This data will be used with a standard life 
cycle cost prediction tool to study how design changes can improve 
product reliability.
    ``LRU Reliability Differences Between Business, Commercial & Cargo 
Jets''--to investigate the in-service performance of selected airplane 
systems components in diverse operational situations to better 
understand how varied operational conditions can cause performance 
degradation or excessive maintenance.
    ``Wireless Communications for Aircraft Systems''--to develop and 
validate an analytical/simulation model to predict the performance of 
wireless communications within the environment of a generic airplane to 
assess the viability of wireless communication technology to inter link 
essential or critical aircraft systems.
    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 the AVSI Cooperative intends to file 
additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On November 18, 1998, the AVSI Cooperative filed its original 
notifications 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 November 7, 
2000. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on March 2, 2001 (66 FR 13080).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 01-20093 Filed 8-9-01; 8:45 am]
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