[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 202 (Friday, October 22, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58689-58690]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-23095]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993-Robotic Operating System-Military Standards 
Development Organization

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 14, 2021, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Robotic Operating System-
Military Standards Development Organization (``ROS-M SDO'') has filed 
written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the 
Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the name and principal place of 
business of the standards development organization and (2) the nature 
and scope of its standards development activities. 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 name and principal place 
of business of the standards development organization is: Robotic 
Operating System-Military Standards Development Organization, Ann 
Arbor, MI. The nature and scope of ROS-M SDO's standards development 
activities are: The ROS-M SDO is comprised of members of National 
Advanced Mobility Consortium (``NAMC'') that are engaged in developing 
a software ecosystem for military robotic and autonomous systems (RAS) 
that provides a trusted community of Government and industry developers 
with the artifacts and other means to develop, grow, and maintain a 
federated body of re-useable software components for defense robotics 
systems. The ROS-

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M ecosystem includes a library and registry of military-relevant 
software components compatible with the open ROS framework, development 
tools, documentation, and support services.

Suzanne Morris,
Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2021-23095 Filed 10-21-21; 8:45 am]
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