[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 127 (Friday, June 30, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40693-40694]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-16606]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--National Warheads and Energetics Consortium 
(``NWEC'')

    Notice is hereby given that, on May 2, 2000, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. Sec. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), National Warheads and 
Energetics Consortium (``NWEC'') has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing (1) The identities of the parties and (2) the 
nature and objectives of the venture. The notifications were filed for 
the purpose of invoking the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of 
antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. 
Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act, the identities of the parties are 
Advanced Technology & Research Corporation, Burtonsville, MD; Aerojet-
General Corporation, Sacramento, CA; Allied Signal Federal 
Manufacturing & Technologies, Kansas City, MO; Armtec Defense Products 
Company, Coachella, CA; Alliant Missile Products Co LLC, Hopkins, MN; 
American Ordnance LLC, Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, Middletown, IA; 
Applied Ordnance Technology, Inc., Waldorf, MD; Business Plus 
Corporation, Denville, NJ; Battelle, Columbus, OH; Bulova Technologies 
LLC, Lancaster, PA; CFD Research Corporation, Huntsville, AL; 
Combustion Propulsion and Ballistic Technology Corporation, State 
College, PA; Climax Molybedenum Corp., Tempe, AZ; DE Technologies, 
Inc., King of Prussia, PA; Day & Zimmerman, Inc., Philadelphia, PA; 
Eaton Associates, LaPorte, IN; Energetic Materials Research and Testing 
Center, Socorro, NM; Ensign-Bickford Company, Simsbury, CT; Enig 
Associates, Inc., Silver Spring, MD; Flurochem Inc., Azusa, CA; GEO-
CENTERS, Inc., Newton Centre, MA; General Dynamics Armament Systems, 
Burlington, VT; General Sciences, Inc., Souderton, PA; Highly Filled 
Materials Institute, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ; KVA 
Advanced Technologies, Inc., Carson City, NV; Loki Inc., Rolla, MO; 
Marconi Aerospace Defense Systems, Inc., Austin, TX; Material 
Processing & Research, Inc., Hoboken, NJ; M. Bruns Corporation, 
Alexandria, VA; Mitretek Systems, Inc., McLean, VA; New Jersey 
Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ; University of Maryland, Department 
of Mechanical Engineering, College Park, MD; Powdermet, Inc., Sun 
Valley, CA; Primex Technologies, Inc., St. Petersburg, FL; The 
Pennsylvania State Univ., Office of Sponsored Programs, University 
Park, PA; Quantic Industries, Inc., San Carlos, CA; Raytheon Systems 
Company, Tewksbury, MA; RTF Industries, Marshall, TX; SRI 
International, Menlo Park, CA; STREASAU Laboratory Inc., Spooner, WI; 
Talley Defense Systems, Inc., Mesa, AZ; Tanner Research, Inc., 
Pasadena, CA; Textron Systems Corp., Wilmington, MA; Thermo Power 
Corp., Waltham, MA; Thiokol Propulsion Group, Brigham City, UT; 
University of Denver (Colorado Seminary), Denver, CO; Office of 
Research Services, Rolla, MO; United Defense, LP, Armament Services 
Division, Minneapolis, MN; and Vertay Technology, Inc., East Amherst, 
NY. The nature and objectives of the venture are to conduct research 
and development activities in the area of warheads and energetics 
technology; to enter into a Section 845 ``Other Transactions'' 
Agreement with the US Army for the funding of certain research and 
development to be conducted, in partnership with the Army and other 
NWEC Members, for the US Army Warheads and Energetics Technology Center 
(``WETC'') in the area of warheads and energetics technology; to 
develop, maintain, and execute a flexible multi-year master research 
plan in the area of warheads and energetics technology that clearly 
defines performance goals and maximizes the collective capabilities 
toward attainment of sound technical solutions consistent with these 
goals; to provide a unified and coordinated message to the U.S. 
Government's legislative branch and the Department of Defense community 
as to the strategically important role warheads and energetics 
technologies will play in current and future weapons systems 
development; and to define programs and obtain programs and obtain 
program funding that is focused on the development, demonstration and 
transition of key technologies that will result in current

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weapons system improvements or the fielding of new systems.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-16606 Filed 6-29-00; 8:45 am]
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