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3 p.m. ............... Break 

3:10 p.m. .......... Discussions and Deliberations .................................................. Mr. William Caniano, Designated Federal Official, Mrs. Mary 

Margaret Graham, Chairman. 

4 p.m. ............... Adjourn 

Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552b, as 

amended, and 41 CFR 102–3.155, the 

Director, DIA, has determined that the 

all meetings shall be closed to the 

public. The Director, DIA, in 

consultation with the DIA Office of the 

General Counsel, has determined in 

writing that the public interest requires 

that all sessions of the Board’s meetings 

be closed to the public because they 

include discussions of classified 

information and matters covered by 5 

U.S.C. 552b(c)(1). 

Written Statements 

Pursuant to 41 CFR 102–3.105(j) and 

102–3.140, and section 10(a)(3) of the 

Federal Advisory Board Committee Act 

of 1972, the public or interested 

organizations may submit written 

statements at any time to the DIA 

Advisory Board regarding its missions 

and functions. All written statements 

shall be submitted to the Designated 

Federal Official for the DIA Advisory 

Board. The Designated Federal Official 

will ensure that written statements are 

provided to the Board for its 

consideration. Written statements may 

also be submitted in response to the 

stated agenda of planned board 

meetings. Statements submitted in 

response to this notice must be received 

by the Designated Federal Official at 

least five calendar days prior to the 

meeting which is the subject of this 

notice. Written statements received after 

that date may not be provided or 

considered by the Board until its next 

meeting. All submissions provided 

before that date will be presented to the 

Board before the meeting that is subject 

of this notice. Contact information for 

the Designated Federal Official is listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Dated: January 11, 2012. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

Notice of Availability for Exclusive, 

Non-Exclusive, or Partially-Exclusive 

Licensing of an Invention Concerning 

a Method and Device for Detection of 

Bioavailable Drug Concentration in a 

Fluid Sample 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DOD. 

ACTION: Notice; correction. 

SUMMARY: The notice published in the 

Federal Register on January 6, 2012 (77 

FR 783) contained an incorrect U.S. 

Provisional Patent Application Serial 

No. The correct number is 61/105,604. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

patent issues, Ms. Elizabeth Arwine, 

Patent Attorney, (301) 619–7808. For 

licensing issues, Dr. Paul Mele, Office of 

Research and Technology Applications 

(ORTA), (301) 619–6664, both at telefax 

(301) 619–5034. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

Intent To Grant an Exclusive License 

for a U.S. Army Owned Invention to 

Triumph Actuation Systems—CT, LLC 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the Army 

announces that, unless there is 

objection, after 15 days it will grant an 

exclusive license to Triumph Actuation 

Systems—Connecticut, LLC, of 

Bloomfield, CT in U.S. patent 7,228,779, 

issued June 12, 2007, ‘‘Automatic 

Primer Feed Mechanism’’; U.S. patent 

7,246,549, issued July 24, 2007, 

‘‘Automatic Primer Feed Mechanism; 

U.S. patent 7,318,369, issued January 

15, 2008, ‘‘Out-of-Battery Lock for the 

Automatic Primer Feed Mechanism’’; 

U.S. patent 7,845,264, issued December 

7, 2010, ‘‘Automatic Primer Feed 

Mechanism’’. Any license granted shall 

comply with 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 

Part 404. 

DATES: File written objections by 

February 1, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Timothy S. Ryan, Technology Transfer 

Program Manager, RDAR–EIB, U.S. 

Army ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 

07806–5000, email: timothy.s.ryan@

us.army.mil; (973) 724–7953. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Written 

objections must be filed within 15 days 

from publication date of this notice in 

the Federal Register. Any license 

granted shall comply with 35 U.S.C. 209 

and 37 CFR 404. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Defense Acquisition Regulations 

System 

Waiver for Certain Defense Items 

Produced in the United Kingdom 

AGENCY: Defense Acquisition 

Regulations System, Department of 

Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Under Secretary of 

Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and 

Logistics) is waiving the statutory 

limitation for certain defense items 

produced in the United Kingdom (UK). 

The law limits DoD procurement of 

certain items to sources in the national 

technology and industrial base. The 

waiver will permit procurement of 

enumerated items from sources in the 

UK, unless otherwise restricted by 

statute. 

DATES: This waiver is effective 

beginning February 1, 2012, until 

February 1, 2013. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Patricia Foley, OUSD (AT&L), Office of 

the Director of Defense Procurement and 

Acquisition Policy, Contract Policy and 

International Contracting, Room 5E621, 

3060 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 

20301–3060, telephone (703) 693–1145. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Subsection (a) of 10 U.S.C. 2534 

provides that the Secretary of Defense 

may procure the items listed in that 

subsection only if the manufacturer of 

the item is part of the national 

technology and industrial base. 

Subsection (i) of 10 U.S.C. 2534 

authorizes the Secretary of Defense to 


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exercise the waiver authority in 

subsection (d) on the basis of the 

applicability of paragraph (2) or (3) of 

that subsection, only if the waiver is 

made for a particular item listed in 

subsection (a) and for a particular 

foreign country. Subsection (d) 

authorizes a waiver if the Secretary 

determines that application of the 

limitation ‘‘would impede the reciprocal 

procurement of defense items under a 

memorandum of understanding 

providing for reciprocal procurement of 

defense items’’ and if he determines that 

‘‘that country does not discriminate 

against defense items produced in the 

United States to a greater degree than 

the United States discriminates against 

defense items produced in that 

country.’’ The Secretary of Defense has 

delegated the waiver authority of 10 

U.S.C. 2534(d) to the Under Secretary of 

Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and 

Logistics). 

DoD has had a Reciprocal Defense 

Procurement Memorandum of 

Understanding (MOU) with the UK 

since 1975, most recently renewed on 

December 16, 2004. 

The Under Secretary of Defense 

(Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics) 

finds that the UK does not discriminate 

against defense items produced in the 

United States to a greater degree than 

the United States discriminates against 

defense items produced in the UK, and 

also finds that application of the 

limitation in 10 U.S.C. 2534 against 

defense items produced in the UK 

would impede the reciprocal 

procurement of defense items under the 

MOU. 

Under the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2534, 

the Under Secretary of Defense 

(Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics) 

has determined that application of the 

limitation of 10 U.S.C. 2534(a) to the 

procurement of any defense item 

produced in the UK that is listed below 

would impede the reciprocal 

procurement of defense items under the 

MOU with the UK. 

On the basis of the foregoing, the 

Under Secretary of Defense 

(Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics) 

is waiving the limitation in 10 U.S.C. 

2534(a) for procurements of any defense 

item listed below that is produced in the 

UK. This waiver applies only to the 

limitations in 10 U.S.C. 2534(a). It does 

not apply to any other limitation, 

including section 8016 of the DoD 

Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2012 

(Pub. L. 112–74). This waiver applies to 

procurements under solicitations issued 

during the period from February 1, 

2012, to February 1, 2013. Similar 

waivers have been granted since 1998, 

most recently in 2010 (75 FR 76447, 

December 8, 2010). 

List of Items to Which This Waiver 

Applies 

1. Air circuit breakers. 

2. Welded shipboard anchor and 

mooring chain with a diameter of four 

inches or less. 

3. Gyrocompasses. 

4. Electronic navigation chart systems. 

5. Steering controls. 

6. Pumps. 

7. Propulsion and machinery control 

systems. 

8. Totally enclosed lifeboats. 

Ynette R. Shelkin, 

Editor, Defense Acquisition Regulations 

System. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Arbitration Panel Decision Under the 

Randolph-Sheppard Act 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice of decision. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Education 

(Department) gives notice that on 

September 18, 2010, an arbitration panel 

rendered a decision in the matter of 

John Bell, et al. v. New Jersey 

Commission for the Blind and Visually 

Impaired, Case no. R–S/07–14. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You 

may obtain a copy of the full text of the 

arbitration panel decision from Mary 

Yang, U.S. Department of Education, 

400 Maryland Avenue SW., room 5162, 

Potomac Center Plaza, Washington, DC 

20202–2800. Telephone: (202) 245– 

6327. If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), call the 

Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 

1–(800) 877–8339. 

Individuals with disabilities can 

obtain this document in an accessible 

format (e.g., braille, large print, 

audiotape, or compact disc) by 

contacting the program contact person 

listed in this section. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

arbitration panel was convened by the 

Department under 20 U.S.C. 107d-l(a), 

after receiving a complaint from the 

Complainant, John Bell. Under section 

6(c) of the Randolph-Sheppard Act 

(Act), 20 U.S.C. 107d-2(c), the Secretary 

publishes in the Federal Register a 

synopsis of each arbitration panel 

decision affecting the administration of 

vending facilities on Federal and other 

property. 

Background 

John Bell (Complainant) alleged 

violations by the New Jersey 

Commission for the Blind and Visually 

Impaired, the State licensing agency 

(SLA), under the Act and implementing 

regulations in 34 CFR part 395. 

Complainant alleged that the SLA 

violated the Act, the implementing 

regulations and the New Jersey 

Administrative Code concerning 

Complainant’s management of a facility 

comprised of laundry equipment and 

vending machines at the Fairton Federal 

Correction Institution (Fairton) operated 

by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) 

at Fairton, New Jersey. 

Specifically, Complainant alleged that 

the SLA unlawfully (1) entered into an 

‘‘intergovernmental agreement’’ with 

BOP rather than a ‘‘permit’’ for the 

Fairton facility; (2) allowed BOP to 

collect 15 percent of Complainant’s net 

sales, as opposed to net profit; (3) 

allowed BOP to improperly change the 

rate charged for laundry services; (4) 

failed to pay the cost of replacing 

certain laundry machines in 2003 and/ 

or failed to reimburse Complainant for 

$48,000 for the lease purchase 

agreement he signed to replace the 

laundry machines himself; (5) required 

Complainant to pay the first $200 in 

repair costs for each machine 

breakdown; and (6) failed to provide 

Complainant with a State fair hearing. 

Complainant requested that the 

arbitration panel grant the following 

relief: (1) Damages of approximately 

$440,000; (2) an order directing the SLA 

to file an arbitration against the BOP 

regarding the 15 percent that 

Complainant paid to BOP; (3) a 

recommendation from the panel to the 

Secretary of Education that the New 

Jersey Commission for the Blind and 

Visually Impaired be removed as the 

SLA under the Act based upon its 

failure to provide Complainant with a 

full State fair hearing; and (4) costs 

incurred in this proceeding, including 

reasonable attorney’s fees. 

Complainant filed for a State fair 

hearing of his complaint, which was 

held on October 23, 2007. The 

Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) set 

January 15, 2008, as the date for the 

parties to submit post-hearing briefs. 

However, prior to the decision, the SLA 

requested that the ALJ return the case to 

it. Complainant opposed the request, 

but the ALJ advised Complainant that 

under New Jersey law he was required 

to relinquish the case back to the SLA. 

Subsequently, Complainant filed with 

the Department a request for Federal 

arbitration seeking an appeal of the 

State fair hearing decision. A Federal 


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