[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 97 (Tuesday, May 19, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 29977]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-10723]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Spectrum Forward Consortium

    Notice is hereby given that, on May 4, 2020, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), the Spectrum Forward Consortium 
(``SFC'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with the 
Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the 
identities of the parties to the venture 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 
to the venture are: Consortium Management Group, Inc. (``CMG''), on 
behalf of the Spectrum Forward Consortium, Washington, DC; Fathom 4, 
LLC, Charleston, SC; Logistic Services International, Inc., 
Jacksonville, FL; Netorian, LLC, Aberdeen, MD; StartGuides, LLC, 
Alexandria, VA; and Tiburon Associates, Inc., Grand Rapids, MI.
    The general area of SFC's planned activity is to execute and 
implement an Other Transaction Agreement (``OTA'') with the U.S. 
Government (``Government'') (a) for the funding of certain research, 
development, testing and evaluation of protypes leading to follow-on 
project production to be conducted as a collaboration between the 
Government and the SFC Members, to enhance the capabilities of the 
Government and its departments and agencies in the development of 
protypes and full production thereof in the critical electromagnetic 
spectrum technology fields (``SFC Mission''); (b) to participate in the 
establishment of sound technical and programmatic performance goals 
based on the technical needs and requirements of the Government's 
electronic spectrum Technology Objectives; (c) to provide a unified 
voice to effectively articulate the global and strategically important 
role the SFC Mission plays in furthering national security objectives; 
and (d) to maximize the utilization of the Government's and SFC 
Members' capabilities to effectively develop critical technologies 
which can be transitioned and commercialized.

Suzanne Morris,
Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics Unit, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2020-10723 Filed 5-18-20; 8:45 am]
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