[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9767-9768]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-03619]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Cooperative Research Group on Numerical 
Propulsion System Simulation

    Notice is hereby given that, on December 11, 2013, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Southwest Research 
Institute--Cooperative Research Group on Numerical Propulsion System 
Simulation (``NPSS'') has filed written notifications simultaneously 
with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing 
(1) the identities of the parties to the venture 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 
to the venture are The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA; General Electric 
Company,

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Cincinnati, OH; Honeywell International Inc., Tucson, AZ; Lockheed 
Martin Corporation, Fort Worth, TX; Ohio Aerospace Institute, Brook 
Park, OH; Rolls-Royce Corporation, Indianapolis, IN; Teledyne 
Technologies Inc. d/b/a Teledyne Turbine Engines, Toledo, OH; United 
Technologies Corporation, East Hartford, CT; and Williams International 
Co., LLC, Commerce Township, MI. NPSS was originally developed by 
engineers at NASA Glenn Research Center in 1995. The NPSS code is used 
for the development of engine performance models that can be integrated 
into vehicle system models allowing engine manufactures to easily share 
critical performance information. The code maintenance and development 
of NPSS was assigned by NASA to an industrial consortium operated by 
the NPSS Consortium Members. The Consortium Members transferred 
management responsibility of this consortium to Southwest Research 
Institute.
    The general area of NPSS's planned activity is to maintenance of 
the core program, and major improvement projects. For example, the 
development of a graphical user interface to improve user interaction 
with the NPSS code and the addition of the capability to handle 
multiple unit systems beside the English system which is currently the 
default in NPSS.
    Membership in this group research project remains open, and NPSS 
intends to file additional written notification disclosing all changes 
in membership of planned activities.

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2014-03619 Filed 2-19-14; 8:45 am]
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