[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 67 (Monday, April 7, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 18811]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-7013]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--System of Systems Security (SOSSEC) Consortium

    Notice is hereby given that, on February 25, 2008, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), System of Systems Security 
(SOSSEC) Consortium 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: DDN, Incorporated, Danville, NH; MATRX, Morgantown, WV; CACI, 
Eatontown, NJ; MountainTop Technologies Inc., Johnstown, PA; Abacus 
Technology Corp., Chevy Chase, MD; Rutgers University, The Center for 
Information Management, Newark, NJ; (Individual) L. Robert Kimball, 
Ebensburg, PA; FirTH, Alexandria, VA; and Concurrent Technology Corp., 
Largo, FL.
    The general area of SOSSEC Consortium's planned activity is 
improving by an order of magnitude the nation's ability to detect, 
intervene, respond and recover to and from any and all threats on the 
homeland by integrating multiple existing and emerging Homeland 
Defense, Homeland Security and Force Protection projects and systems to 
markedly improve regional security, rapidly and efficiently; 
implementing practical strategies for core research, technology 
transition, system engineering and expansion and replication of 
regional capabilities to accelerate achievement of large scale 
interoperable security capabilities; also, growing SOSSEC to represent 
a community of interest, both public and private to foster best of 
breed concepts, technologies, techniques and procedures for long term 
national Homeland Defense, Homeland Security and Force Protection 
development.

Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. E8-7013 Filed 4-4-08; 8:45 am]
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