2023-01372. Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction

Notice is hereby given that, on January 4, 2023, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (“the Act”), Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (“CWMD”) 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, Alion Science and Technology Corporation, McLean, VA; DKW Consulting LLC, Tallahassee, FL; Foothold Labs, Inc., Olathe, KS; Global Technology Connection, Inc., Atlanta, GA; Luna Labs USA LLC, Charlottesville, VA; OmniMask LLC, Lafayette, CA; Orion Technology Group LLC, Wilmington, DE; Spectral Sciences, Inc., Burlington, MA; and Systems & Technology Research LLC, Woburn, MA, have been added as parties to this venture.

Also, Applied Technology, Inc., King George, VA; Consolidated Cordage Corporation, Boca Raton, FL; Government Scientific Source, Reston, VA; Hassett and Willis Associates, Inc., Washington, DC; Intellisense Systems, Inc., Torrance, CA; Kyrus Tech, Inc., Sterling, VA; L&C Protec, Inc. dba Cocoon, Inc., North Hampton, NH; Nano Terra, Inc., Cambridge, MA; Phase Sensitive Innovations, Inc., Newark, DE; QUASAR Federal Systems, Inc., San Diego, CA; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Smart Sensing Solutions, San Pedro, CA; Streamline Automation LLC, Huntsville, AL; Tac-Alert LLC, Austin, TX; and University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, have withdrawn as parties to this venture.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 CWMD intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

On January 31, 2018, CWMD 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 12, 2018 (83 FR 10750).

The last notification was filed with the Department on October 6, 2022. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act on November 23, 2022 (87 FR 71680).

Suzanne Morris,

Deputy Director of Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.