Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction

Notice is hereby given that, on January 7, 2021, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (“the Act”), Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (“CWMD”) 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, AimLock dba Dev-Lock Systems, Inc., Littleton, CO; Cahaba Micro, LLC, Pelham, AL; Consolidated Cordage Corporation, Boca Raton, FL; Encryptor, Inc., Plano, TX; Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, Pensacola, FL; Intellisense Systems, Inc., Torrance, CA; INTERFUZE Corporation, Huntsville, AL; Pacific Advanced Technology, Inc., Los Olivos, CA; SciTec, Inc., Princeton, NJ; Shield AI, Inc., San Diego, CA; Technology In Images, Inc. (Ti2Inc), Pittsburgh, PA; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA have been added as parties to this venture.

Also, BAE Systems, Greenland, NY; Bill Baugh Associates, LLC, Millersville, MD; Bohemia Interactive Simulations, Inc. (BISim), Orlando, FL; Chenega Reliable Services, LLC, San Antonio, TX; Citadel Defense Company, National City, CA; CogniTech Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT; Continuum Dynamics, Inc., Ewing, NJ; Eirene Technologies, Inc., La Mesa, CA; GenScript USA, Inc., Knight Aerospace Medical Systems, LLC, San Antonio, TX; Military Battery Systems, Inc., Denver, CO; Morphix Technologies, Inc., Virginia Beach, VA; Nucsafe, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN; QinetiQ North America, Waltham, MA; VITNI Corporation, Hilo, HI; Women Veterans Contracting, Inc. (WVC), San Diego, CA have withdrawn from this venture.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 CWMD intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

On January 31, 2018, CWMD 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 March 12, 2018 (83 FR 10750).

The last notification was filed with the Department on October 28, 2020. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on November 20, 2020 (85 FR 74386).