2023-01383. Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Undersea Technology Innovation Consortium

Notice is hereby given that, on January 5, 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”), Undersea Technology Innovation Consortium (“UTIC”) 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, Precise Systems, Inc., Lexington Park, MD; Matsys, Inc., Sterling, VA; Real-Time Innovations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; Nautilus Cables LLC, Rosenberg, TX; and Hydroacoustics, Inc., Henrietta, NY, have been added as parties to this venture.

Also, Alluvionic, Inc., Melbourne, FL; FGS LLC, La Plata, MD; Shield Ai, Inc., San Diego, CA; Scale Ai, Inc., San Francisco, CA; Polaris Alpha Advanced Systems, Inc., Fredericksburg, VA; NetApp US Public Sector, Inc., Vienna, VA; Hunter Mechanical Design LLC, Marion, MA; Azavea, Inc., Philadelphia, PA; Art Anderson Associates, Inc., Bremerton, WA; and Sertainty Corp., Nashville, TN, have withdrawn as parties to this venture.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 UTIC intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

On October 9, 2018, UTIC 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 November 2, 2018 (83 FR 55203).

The last notification was filed with the Department on October 5, 2022. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on November 14, 2022 (87 FR 67493).

Suzanne Morris,

Deputy Director of Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.