[Infowarrior] - 'System of Systems' info-sharing consortium

[Richard Forno]

(Sounds like Matrix meets Talon Meets TIA? --rf)


http://cryptome.org/doj040708.htm

7 April 2008

[Federal Register: April 7, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 67)]

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--System of Systems Security (SOSSEC) Consortium

    Notice is hereby given that, on February 25, 2008, pursuant to
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), System of Systems Security
(SOSSEC) Consortium 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: DDN, Incorporated, Danville, NH; MATRX, Morgantown, WV; CACI,
Eatontown, NJ; MountainTop Technologies Inc., Johnstown, PA; Abacus
Technology Corp., Chevy Chase, MD; Rutgers University, The Center for
Information Management, Newark, NJ; (Individual) L. Robert Kimball,
Ebensburg, PA; FirTH, Alexandria, VA; and Concurrent Technology Corp.,
Largo, FL.
    The general area of SOSSEC Consortium's planned activity is
improving by an order of magnitude the nation's ability to detect,
intervene, respond and recover to and from any and all threats on the
homeland by integrating multiple existing and emerging Homeland
Defense, Homeland Security and Force Protection projects and systems to
markedly improve regional security, rapidly and efficiently;
implementing practical strategies for core research, technology
transition, system engineering and expansion and replication of
regional capabilities to accelerate achievement of large scale
interoperable security capabilities; also, growing SOSSEC to represent
a community of interest, both public and private to foster best of
breed concepts, technologies, techniques and procedures for long term
national Homeland Defense, Homeland Security and Force Protection

development.

Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. E8-7013 Filed 4-4-08; 8:45 am]

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