[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 129 (Wednesday, July 6, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44047-44048]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-15964]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, 
Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 2, 2016, pursuant to section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), National Center for Manufacturing 
Sciences, Inc. (``NCMS'') 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, BAE Systems Aerospace Defense Group, Inc., 
Phoenix, AZ; Barfield, Inc., Miami, FL; Claxton Logistics, Dumfries, 
VA; Copernicus Technology LTD, Ogden, UT; EADS North America Test and 
Services, Maryland Heights, MO; Elevate Systems, San Antonio, TX; FIVES 
Machining Systems Inc., Fond du Lac, WI; Flight Support, Inc., North 
Haven, CT; Great Lakes Composites Consortium, Inc., West Columbia, SC; 
Impact Resources, Inc. dba IR Technologies, Bethesda, MD; J Chadwick 
Co., Monrovia, CA; MagneGas Corporation, Rochester Hills, MI; MERC--
Mercer Engineering Research Center, Beavercreek, OH; Michigan State 
University, East Lansing, MI; MKGCS, Herndon, VA; Moog Incorporated, 
Plymouth, MI; National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, 
Gaithersburg, MD; National Center for Defense Manufacturing Machining 
(NCDMM), Chambersburg, PA; PPG Industries, Inc., Troy, MI; Pratt & 
Whitney, Hartford, CT; PYA Analytics, Knoxville, TN; RGS Associates 
Inc., Arlington, VA; Russells Technical Products, Holland, MI; Services 
and Solutions Group, LLC, Charleston, SC; Sikorsky Aircraft, Stratford, 
CT; Survivability Solutions, LLC, Troy, MI; Tata Technologies, Novi, 
MI; University of Delaware--Center for Composite Materials, Newark, DE; 
and Vectron International, Hudson, NH, have been added as parties to 
this venture.
    Also, A&P Technology, Inc., Cincinnati, OH; Analysis, Integration & 
Design, Inc. (AIDI), Melbourne, FL; Bayer MaterialScience, LLC, 
Pittsburgh, PA; Bi-Phase Technologies, LLC, Eagen, MN; Connecticut 
Center for Advanced Technology, Inc. (CCAT), East Hartford,

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CT; Curtiss-Wright Surface Technologies, Duncan, SC; Detroit Regional 
Chamber, Detroit, MI; Engineering Technology Associates, Inc. (ETA), 
Troy, MI; Fraunhofer USA, Inc., Plymouth, MI; General Motors, LLC, 
Wixom, MI; Goodrich Corporation, Charlotte, NC; Gravikor, Inc., Ann 
Arbor, MI; H.A. Burrow Pattern Works, Inc., Joliet, MT; Ilumisys, Inc., 
Troy, MI; Imaginestics, LLC, West Lafayette, IN; Koops, Inc., Holland, 
MI; MAG-IAS, LLC, Hebron, KY; Michigan Department of Environmental 
Quality, Lansing, MI; Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, WA; PARC, a Xerox 
Company, Palo Alto, CA; Parker-Hannifin Corporation, Plymouth, MI; 
Perfect Point, Inc., Plymouth Meeting, PA; QinetiQ North America, Inc., 
McLean, VA; Radian Precision, Inc., Madison Heights, MI; RW Appleton & 
Company, Inc., Sterling Heights, MI; Tabor Communications, Inc. (TCI), 
San Diego, CA; Technical Objectives Professionals, LLC (TOP Inc.), 
Kasson, MN; TotalSim, LLC, Dublin, OH; University of California, Los 
Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA; University of Massachusetts--Lowell, 
Lowell, CA; and Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 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 NCMS intends to file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On February 20, 1987, NCMS 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 
March 17, 1987 (52 FR 8375).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on March 25, 
2014. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on April 30, 2014 (79 FR 24451).

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2016-15964 Filed 7-5-16; 8:45 am]
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