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

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Federal RegisterJun 12, 2023
88 Fed. Reg. 38095 (Jun. 12, 2023)

Notice is hereby given that, on April 6, 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”), the 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, Customer First Corporation, Middletown, RI; Edge Case Research, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA; Image Acoustics, Inc., Quincy, MA; MagiQ Technologies, Inc., Somerville, MA; and SyQwest, Inc., Cranston, RI, have been added as parties to this venture.

Also, Michigan Tech. University, Houghton, MI; Navmar Applied Sciences Corp., Warminster, PA; The Nomad Group LLC, Morristown, NJ; Thornton Tomasetti, Inc., New York, NY; Sirius Federal LLC, Crofton, MD; Sonatech LLC, Santa Barbara, CA; and Submergence Group LLC, Cedar Park, TX, have withdrawn as parties to this venture.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 January 5, 2023. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on January 25, 2023 (88 FR 4847).

Suzanne Morris,

Deputy Director, Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.

[FR Doc. 2023–12524 Filed 6–9–23; 8:45 am]

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