[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 100 (Friday, May 23, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28264-28297]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-13028]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Responses to Public Comments on Proposed Final Judgment in United 
States v. Northrop Grumman Corporation and TRW Inc.

    Pursuant to the Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act, 15 U.S.C. 
16(b)-(h), the United States hereby publishes the four public comments 
on the proposed Final Judgment in United States v. Northrop Grumman 
Corporation and TRW Inc., Civil No. 1:02CV02432, filed in the United 
States District Court for the District of Columbia, together with the 
responses of the United States to the comments.
    On December 11, 2002, the United States filed a Complaint alleging 
that Northrop Grumman Corporation's proposed acquisition of TRW Inc. 
would lessen competition substantially in the development, production, 
and sale of radar reconnaissance satellite systems and electro-optical/
infrared reconnaissance satellite systems, and the payloads for those 
systems, in the United States, in violation of section 7 of the Clayton 
Act, 15 U.S.C. 18. The proposed Final Judgment, filed at the same time 
as the Complaint, requires the defendant Northrop to act in a non-
discriminatory manner in making teaming and purchase decisions on 
programs in which, by virtue of the acquisition of TRW, it will be able 
to compete as both a prime contractor and the supplier of the payloads 
for the program.
    Public comment was invited within the statutory 60-day comment 
period. The public comments and the responses of the United States 
thereto are hereby published in the Federal Register, and shortly 
thereafter these documents will be attached to a Certificate of 
Compliance with Provisions of the Antitrust Procedures and Penalties 
Act and filed with the Court, together with a motion urging the Court 
to enter the proposed Judgment. Copies of the Complaint, the proposed 
Final Judgment, and the Competitive Impact Statement are currently 
available for inspection in Room 200 of the Antitrust Division, 
Department of Justice, 325 7th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20530 
(telephone: 202-514-2481) and at the Clerk's Office, United States 
District Court for the District of Columbia, 333 Constitution Avenue, 
NW., Washington, DC 20001. (The United States's Certificate of 
Compliance with Provisions of the Antitrust Procedures and Penalties 
Act will be made available at the same locations shortly after they are 
filed with the Court.) Copies of any of these materials may be obtained 
upon request and payment of a copying fee.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
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[FR Doc. 03-13028 Filed 5-22-03; 8:45 am]
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