[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 58 (Thursday, March 25, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15381-15382]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-6658]


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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 February 20, 2004, 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 planned activities. 
The

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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, the AVSI 
Cooperative intends to undertake the following joint research projects:
    ``Energy Harvesting and Structural Damping''--To determine the 
feasibility of using multifunctional carbon nanotube supercapacitors as 
a stand-alone system to harvest aero-elastic energy, dampen structural 
buffeting and provide structural elements.
    ``Modular Open Systems Approach Interoperability''--To develop an 
open systems approach for airborne systems such as avionics to allow 
greater interoperability through modular common interfaces and 
architectures. The goal is to reduce operational and support costs for 
these systems to enable increased investment in acquisition of new and/
or technology-refreshed replacement systems.
    ``Validation and Verification of Advanced Flight Control 
Systems''--To validate and verify advanced nonlinear, adaptive and 
reconfigurable control strategies for manned and unmanned aircraft.
    ``Economic Analysis of Fuel and Infrastructure Options for Aircraft 
Fuel Cell Applications''--To investigate the economic feasibility of 
fuel type and fuel supply infrastructure options for aircraft fuel cell 
applications.
    Furthermore, Textron Company, acting through its Cessna Aircraft 
Company, Wichita, KS, has withdrawn as a party to this venture. In 
addition, BAE Systems, acting through its BAE Systems Controls 
Division, a corporation in Rockville, MD; and Rockwell Collins, acting 
through its Air Transport Systems Division, Cedar Rapids, IA, have been 
added as parties to this venture.
    No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned 
activities 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 Cooperatives 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 October 29, 
2003. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on December 12, 2003 (68 FR 69422).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-6658 Filed 3-24-04; 8:45 am]
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