[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 243 (Wednesday, December 22, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72628-72629]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-27742]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to The National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--America's Datahub Consortium

    Notice is hereby given that, on November 11, 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''), America's DataHub 
Consortium (``ADC'') 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.

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    Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act, the identity of the parties to 
the venture are: 2Is Inc., Walpole, MA; American Economic Association, 
Nashville, TN; American Statistical Association, Alexandria, VA; 
Applied Information Sciences (AIS), Reston, VA; Bowie State University, 
Bowie, MD; CGI Federal, Fairfax, VA; Columbia University Data Science 
Institute, New York, NY; Concurrent Technologies Corporation, 
Johnstown, PA; Council of Professional Organizations on Federal 
Statistics, Washington, DC; Data Security Technologies LLC, Richardson, 
TX; Emerging Sun, LLC, Bethesda, MD; FDHint, LLC, Purchase, NY; Malum, 
Inc., Coralville, IA; MRIGlobal, Kansas City, MO; NanoVMs, Inc., San 
Francisco, CA; National Opinion Research Center, Chicago, IL; Northeast 
Information Discovery Inc., Canastota, NY; PitchBook Data, Inc., 
Seattle, WA; Quantitative Scientific Solutions, LLC, Arlington, VA; SRI 
International, Menlo Park, CA; The Coleridge Initiative Inc, Chevy 
Chase, MD; The Informatics Applications Group, Inc (dba TIAG), Reston, 
VA; Trustees of Tufts College, Inc., Medford, MA; University of Florida 
Institute of Marine Remote Sensing, St. Petersburg, FL; University of 
Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; University of Southern Mississippi, Gulfport, 
MS; Urban Institute, Washington, DC; Vertosoft LLC, Leesburg, VA. The 
general area of ADC's planned activity is to perform a coordinated 
research and development program to further the National Center for 
science and Engineering Statistics' (NCSES) statutory role as a central 
Federal clearinghouse for the collection, interpretation, analysis, and 
dissemination of objective data on science, engineering, technology, 
and research and development. ADC's planned activity is to develop new 
ways of acquiring, cleaning, and standardizing data; combining multiple 
data sets; and linking data from various government and private sources 
to yield valuable insights into critical issues. The consortium was 
formed effective August 10th, 2021.

Suzanne Morris,
Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics, Antitrust Division.
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