2019-02444. Notice Pursuant to The National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction

Notice is hereby given that, on January 28, 2019, 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, 3M Company, Saint Paul, MN; Aeryon Defense USA, Inc., Denver, CO; Alqimi National Security, Inc., Rockville, MD; Anthem Engineering, LLC, Elkridge, MD; BAE Systems, Greenland, NY; Cerium Laboratories, LLC, Austin, TX; General Dynamics Land Systems, Sterling Heights, MI; General Dynamics Mission Systems, Fort Wayne, IN; Gentex Corporation, Simpson, PA; Intelesense Technologies, Fremont, CA; Noblis, Inc., Reston, VA; Quantitative Scientific Solutions (QS-2), Arlington, VA; Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. (RMD, Inc.), Watertown, MA; Red Wire Technologies, Knoxville, TN; Schafer Government Services, LLC (A Belcan Company), Arlington, VA; Science & Engineering Services, LLC, Columbia, MD; Triton Systems, Inc., Chelmsford, MA; and TRX Systems, Inc., Greenbelt, MD, have been added as parties to this venture.

Also, Convergence LLC, Bel Air, MD; Laelaps Consulting, LLC, Arlington, VA; Locus Biosciences, Morrisville, NC; Northrop Grumman Systems, Huntsville, AL; and Rigaku Analytical Devices, Inc., Wilmington, MA, have withdrawn as parties to this venture.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 29, 2018. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on December 6, 2018 (83 FR 62901).

Suzanne Morris,

Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics Unit, Antitrust Division.