[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 14 (Tuesday, January 22, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 2910]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-1541]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Southwest Research Institute: The Consortium 
for NASGRO Development and Support

    Notice is hereby given that, on October 3, 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''), Southwest Research 
Institute: The Consortium for NASGRO Development and Support has filed 
written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the 
Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties 
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 are Agusta s.p.a., Cascina Costa di Samarate, Italy; EADS 
Airbus GmbH, Hamburg, Germany; EADS Airbus S.A., Paris, France; 
Embraer-Empresa Brasileira De Aeronautica S/A, Sao Jose dos Campos, 
Brazil; Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd., Ben-Gurion Airport, Israel; 
Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd., Kyungnam, Republic of Korea; Northrup 
Grumman Corporation, Melbourne, FL; Siemens Westinghouse Power 
Corporation, Orlando, FL; and Volvo Aero Corporation, Trollhattan, 
Sweden. The nature and objectives of the venture are to identify and 
prioritize, develop and implement new NASGRO capabilities for 
structural integrity analysis needed by the user community to address 
its current and anticipated problems, to provide a wider range of user 
support services, including but not limited to training and technical 
support, the facilitate the ongoing use of the NASGRO code by industry, 
to expand the user community of the NASGRO code, and to promote direct 
technical interactions among fracture mechanics experts and 
practitioners regarding the development and implementation of new 
state-of-the-art methods for structural integrity assessment. The 
NASGRO (previously NASA/FLAGRO) computer code was originally developed 
in the 1980's for fracture control analysis on NASA (National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration) space hardware.
    Membership in this research project group remains open, and the 
participants intend to file additional written notification disclosing 
all changes in membership or planned activities.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 02-1541 Filed 1-18-02; 8:45 am]
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