Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993Aerospace Vehicle Systems Institute (``AVSI'') Cooperative

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 32 (Thursday, February 18, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8123-8124]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-3920]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Aerospace Vehicle Systems Institute (``AVSI'') 
Cooperative

    Notice is hereby given that, on November 18, 1998, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Aerospace Vehicle Systems 
Institute (``AVSI'') Cooperative 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 
Texas Engineering Experiment Station, a component of the Texas A&M 
University System, College Station, TX; Allied Signal, Inc., Bellevue, 
WA; Boeing Company, acting through its division, Boeing Commercial 
Airplane Group, Seattle, WA; Hamilton Standard Division, United 
Technologies Corporation, Windsor Locks, CT; Honeywell, Inc., Phoenix, 
AZ; Moog Inc., East Aurora, NY; Parker Hannifin

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Corporation, acting through its Parker Aerospace Division, Irvine, CA; 
Rockwell Collins Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA; and Sundstrand Corporation, 
acting through its Sundstrand Aerospace Division, Rockford, IL. The 
nature and objectives of the venture are to accelerate development of 
new system architectures, components and processes that satisfy the 
need for ``faster, cheaper, better'' commercial aircraft in areas where 
joint development of new technologies and processes is appropriate.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 99-3920 Filed 2-17-99; 8:45 am]
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