06-1289. Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium, Inc.

Notice is hereby given that, on January 23, 2006, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (“the Act”), Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium, Inc. 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, International Data Links Society, San Diego, CA; Military Communication Institute, Zegrze, POLAND; and Maritime Technology Centre R&D Institute, Gdynia, POLAND have been added as parties to this venture. Also, SPARTA, Inc., Arlington, VA; AeroVironment, Inc., Simi Valley, CA; and Software Engineering Institute/Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA have withdrawn as parties to this venture.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 Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium, Inc. intends to file additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.

On November 19, 2004, Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium, Inc. 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 February 2, 2005 (70 FR 5486).

The last notification was filed with the Department on October 31, 2005. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on November 28, 2005 (70 FR 71333).

Dorothy B. Fountain,

Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.