2021-08077. Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction

Notice is hereby given that, on March 26, 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”), Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Consortium (“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, Applied Technology, Inc., King George, VA; CDO Technologies, Inc., Dayton, MD; Kestrel Corporation, Albuquerque, NM; Marcon Engineering, Inc., Escondido, CA; Matsys, Inc., Sterling, VA; MZA Associates Corporation, Albuquerque, NM; OptoKnowledge, Torrance, CA; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY and SafetySpect, Inc., Los Angeles, CA have been added as parties to this venture.

Also, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; Defense Equipment Company, Alpharetta, GA; Efiia Consulting LLC, Falls Church, VA; HII Mission Driven Innovative Solutions, Huntsville, AL; Immersive Wisdom, Inc., Boca Raton, FL; Mobilestack, Inc., Dublin, CA; Newton Services LLC; Cody, WY and TRX Systems, Inc., Greenbelt, MD have withdrawn from this venture.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 January 7, 2021. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on January 19, 2021 (86 FR 5250).

Suzanne Morris,

Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics, Antitrust Division.