[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 139 (Thursday, July 20, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41257-41258]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-6360]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium, 
Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 20, 2006, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``Act''), Network Centric Operations Industry 
Consortium, Inc. has filed written notifications simultaneously with 
the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing 
changes in its membership. 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, American Red Cross, Washington, DC; Open Geospatial

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Consortium, Inc., Wayland, MA; Management and Engineering Technologies 
International, Inc., El Paso, TX; Gallium Software Inc., Ottawa, 
Ontario, Canada; and SPARTA, Inc., Arlington, VA have been added as 
parties to this venture. Also, West Virginia High Technology Consortium 
Foundation, Fairmont, WV; MBL International, Ltd., Annandale, VA; 
Crystal Group, Inc., Hiawatha, IA; and FlightSafety International, 
Flushing, NY have withdrawn as parties to this venture.
    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 Network Centric Operations Industry 
Consortium, Inc. intends to file additional written notification 
disclosing all changes in membership.
    On November 19, 2004, Network Centric Operations Industry 
Consortium, Inc. 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 2, 
2005 (70 FR 5486).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on April 10, 
2006. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on May 10, 2006 (71 FR 27280).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 06-6360 Filed 7-19-06; 8:45 am]
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