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Download as PDF 64314 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 203 / Friday, October 19, 2012 / Notices with the regulations and terms of an APO is a sanctionable violation. This notice is issued and published in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and 19 CFR 351.213(d)(4). Dated: October 12, 2012. Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations. [FR Doc. 2012–25847 Filed 10–18–12; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Institute of Standards and Technology Advisory Committee on Earthquake Hazards Reduction Meeting National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce. ACTION: Notice of open meeting. AGENCY: The Advisory Committee on Earthquake Hazards Reduction (ACEHR or Committee), will meet Monday, November 19, 2012 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time and Tuesday, November 20, 2012, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eastern time. The primary purpose of this meeting is to discuss engineering needs for existing buildings, to review the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) agency updates on their latest activities, and to gather information for the Committee’s 2013 Annual Report of the Effectiveness of the NEHRP. The agenda may change to accommodate Committee business. The final agenda will be posted on the NEHRP Web site at https://nehrp.gov/. DATES: The ACEHR will meet on Monday, November 19, 2012, from 8:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Eastern time. The meeting will continue on Tuesday, November 20, 2012, from 8:30 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. Eastern time. The meeting will be open to the public. ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in the Portrait Room, Administration Building, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899. Please note admittance instructions under the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Jack Hayes, National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Director, NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 8604, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899– 8604. Dr. Hayes’ email address is jack.hayes@nist.gov and his phone number is (301) 975–5640. tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: VerDate Mar<15>2010 16:06 Oct 18, 2012 Jkt 229001 The Committee was established in accordance with the requirements of Section 103 of the NEHRP Reauthorization Act of 2004 (Pub. L. 108–360). The Committee is composed of 12 members appointed by the Director of NIST, who were selected for their technical expertise and experience, established records of distinguished professional service, and their knowledge of issues affecting the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program. In addition, the Chairperson of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Scientific Earthquake Studies Advisory Committee (SESAC) serves in an ex officio capacity on the Committee. The Committee assesses: • Trends and developments in the science and engineering of earthquake hazards reduction; • The effectiveness of NEHRP in performing its statutory activities; • Any need to revise NEHRP; and • The management, coordination, implementation, and activities of NEHRP. Background information on NEHRP and the Advisory Committee is available at https://nehrp.gov/. Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C. App., notice is hereby given that the ACEHR will meet Monday, November 19, 2012 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time and Tuesday, November 20, 2012, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eastern time. The meeting will be held in the Portrait Room, Administration Building, NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899. The primary purpose of this meeting is to discuss engineering needs for existing buildings, to review the NEHRP agency updates on their latest activities, and to gather information for the Committee’s 2013 Annual Report of the Effectiveness of the NEHRP. The agenda may change to accommodate Committee business. The final agenda will be posted on the NEHRP Web site at https://nehrp.gov/. Individuals and representatives of organizations who would like to offer comments and suggestions related to the Committee’s affairs are invited to request a place on the agenda. On November 20, 2012, approximately onehalf hour will be reserved near the conclusion of the meeting for public comments, and speaking times will be assigned on a first-come, first-serve basis. The amount of time per speaker will be determined by the number of requests received, but is likely to be about 3 minutes each. Questions from the public will not be considered during this period. Speakers who wish to expand upon their oral statements, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 those who had wished to speak but could not be accommodated on the agenda, and those who were unable to attend in person are invited to submit written statements to the ACEHR, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, MS 8604, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899– 8604, via fax at (301) 975–4032, or electronically by email to info@nehrp.gov. All visitors to the NIST site are required to pre-register to be admitted. Anyone wishing to attend this meeting must register by 5:00 p.m. Eastern time, Tuesday, November 13, 2012, in order to attend. Please submit your full name, email address, and phone number to Michelle Harman. Non-U.S. citizens must also submit their country of citizenship, title, and employer/sponsor. Mrs. Harman’s email address is michelle.harman@nist.gov and her phone number is (301) 975–5324. Dated: October 12, 2012. Willie E. May, Associate Director for Laboratory Programs. [FR Doc. 2012–25828 Filed 10–18–12; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–13–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Institute of Standards and Technology [Docket No. 120912441–2441–01] National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) invites interested U.S. companies to submit letters of interest in collaborating with NIST/ITL on an ongoing basis in the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) through partnerships called ‘‘National Cybersecurity Excellence Partnerships’’ (NCEPs). DATES: Letters of interest will be accepted on an ongoing basis. However, if NIST determines that letters of interest will no longer be accepted, NIST will publish the last date when letters will be accepted in a Federal Register notice. ADDRESSES: Interested U.S. companies should send letters to Karen Waltermire via email at NCCoE@nist.gov; or via hardcopy to NCCoE, National Institute of Standards and Technology; 100 SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\19OCN1.SGM 19OCN1 tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 203 / Friday, October 19, 2012 / Notices Bureau Drive; MS 2000; Gaithersburg, MD 20899. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Waltermire via email at NCCoE@ nist.gov; or telephone 301–975–4500. For additional information on NCCoE governance, business processes, and operational structure, visit the NCCoE Web site, at https://csrc.nist.gov/nccoe. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NCCoE, hosted by NIST, is a publicprivate collaboration for accelerating the widespread adoption of integrated cybersecurity tools and technologies. The NCCoE’s mission is to bring together experts from industry, government, and academia under one roof to develop practical, interoperable cybersecurity approaches that address the real world needs of complex Information Technology (IT) systems. By accelerating dissemination and use of these integrated tools and technologies for protecting IT assets, the NCCoE strives to enhance trust in U.S. IT communications, data, and storage systems, lower risk for companies and individuals in the use of IT systems, and encourage development of innovative, job-creating cybersecurity products and services. As part of the NCCoE initiative, NIST/ ITL intends to enter into partnerships, called ‘‘National Cybersecurity Excellence Partnerships’’ (NCEPs), with U.S. companies to collaborate on an ongoing basis in the NCCoE. Collaboration agreements will be based upon the statutory technology transfer authorities available to NIST, including the Federal Technology Transfer Act, 15 U.S.C. 3710a. NIST/ITL intends that NCEP collaborators will co-locate with ITL at the NCCoE at 9600 Gudelsky Drive Rockville, MD 20850 and will contribute to the development of the intellectual and physical infrastructure needed to support collaborative efforts among NIST and many sources of security capabilities, including users and vendors of products and services, on holistic approaches to resolve cybersecurity challenges. Approaches to resolving cybersecurity challenges will be addressed at the NCCoE through individual ‘‘use cases,’’ a standard tool used by software engineers to define specific function requirements of a system from the point of view of a user trying to accomplish a specific task. The ‘‘use cases’’ developed by NCCoE will incorporate the IT security needs of specific communities or sectors. Examples of candidate sectors include health care, finance and utilities. The cybersecurity challenges that will be the subject of the ‘‘use cases’’ will be selected by NIST VerDate Mar<15>2010 16:06 Oct 18, 2012 Jkt 229001 through workshops with input from broad groups of stakeholders, as well as public feedback provided via collaborative internet participation. Collaborative participation may be accessed via links from https://nccoe. nist.gov/. Opportunities to participate in individual ‘‘use cases’’ will be announced in the Federal Register and will be open to the public on a firstcome, first-served basis. NIST/ITL envisions that the NCCoE will be capable of supporting multiple simultaneous ‘‘use cases’’ in various stages. NCEP collaborators will neither be obligated to participate in a given ‘‘use case,’’ nor will they be guaranteed participation in a given ‘‘use case,’’ but they will be given priority for participation in each ‘‘use case’’ only for their resources that are already onsite at the NCCoE and for components that are interoperable with those onsite resources, within the process defined for that ‘‘use case’’ as announced in the Federal Register. NCEP collaborators selected to participate in a given ‘‘use case’’ may contribute, but will not be required to contribute, resources in addition to those contributed through their NCEP agreement. However, priority participation in a ‘‘use case’’ will be granted only for resources relevant to the ‘‘use case’’ that are already onsite in the NCCoE and components that are interoperable with those onsite resources. Through their collaboration agreements with NIST/ITL, NCEP collaborators will agree that resources contributed to the NCCoE initiative will be available to all ‘‘use case’’ participants, as determined by NIST. Through individual ‘‘use case’’ consortium agreements, all ‘‘use case’’ participants, including NIST, NCEP collaborators and others, will agree that successful solutions to a NCCoE ‘‘use case’’ will be thoroughly documented and shared publicly, in order to encourage the rapid adoption of comprehensive cybersecurity templates and approaches that support automated and trustworthy e-government and ecommerce. Each NCEP will be between NIST and a U.S. company. It is anticipated that NCEP agreements will be established for a three-year period, with renewal subject to the requirements and interests of the collaborator and NIST/ITL. Interested U.S. companies are invited to submit a letter of interest that contains sufficient information for NIST/ITL to objectively determine whether the proposed collaboration is feasible, relevant to the NCCoE mission to foster the rapid adoption and broad deployment of integrated cybersecurity PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 64315 tools and techniques that enhance consumer confidence in U.S. information systems, and has potential to advance the state of cybersecurity practice. Companies whose proposed collaborations are determined by NIST/ ITL to meet all three criteria will be invited to enter into negotiations for a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with NIST/ITL. Companies whose letters of interest contain insufficient information for NIST/ITL to make a determination as to whether the proposed collaboration meets all three criteria, and companies whose proposed collaboration is determined by NIST/ITL not to meet all three criteria, will be notified in writing by NIST/ITL. Dated: October 12, 2012. Willie E. May, Associate Director for Laboratory Programs. [FR Doc. 2012–25826 Filed 10–18–12; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–13–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Institute of Standards and Technology Prospective Grant of Exclusive Patent License National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce. ACTION: Notice of prospective grant of exclusive patent license. AGENCY: This is a notice in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(e) and 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i) that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (‘‘NIST’’), U.S. Department of Commerce, is contemplating the grant of an exclusive license in the United States of America, its territories, possessions and commonwealths, to NIST’s interest in the invention embodied in U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61,623/957 titled ‘‘Highly Selective Gallium Nitride Nanowire/Titanium Dioxide-Nanocluster Hybrid Sensors for Detection of Benzene and Related Environmental Pollutants,’’ NIST Docket No. 11–019 to the University of Maryland, having a place of business at 0133 Cole Student Activities Building, College Park MD 20742–1001. The grant of the license would be for all fields of use. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Terry Lynch, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Technology Partnerships Office, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 2200, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, (301) 975–2691, terry.lynch@nist.gov. 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[FR Doc No: 2012-25826]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology

[Docket No. 120912441-2441-01]


National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE)

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of 
Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 
Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) invites interested U.S. 
companies to submit letters of interest in collaborating with NIST/ITL 
on an ongoing basis in the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence 
(NCCoE) through partnerships called ``National Cybersecurity Excellence 
Partnerships'' (NCEPs).

DATES: Letters of interest will be accepted on an ongoing basis. 
However, if NIST determines that letters of interest will no longer be 
accepted, NIST will publish the last date when letters will be accepted 
in a Federal Register notice.

ADDRESSES: Interested U.S. companies should send letters to Karen 
Waltermire via email at NCCoE@nist.gov; or via hardcopy to NCCoE, 
National Institute of Standards and Technology; 100

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Bureau Drive; MS 2000; Gaithersburg, MD 20899.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Waltermire via email at 
NCCoE@nist.gov; or telephone 301-975-4500. For additional information 
on NCCoE governance, business processes, and operational structure, 
visit the NCCoE Web site, at https://csrc.nist.gov/nccoe.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NCCoE, hosted by NIST, is a public-
private collaboration for accelerating the widespread adoption of 
integrated cybersecurity tools and technologies. The NCCoE's mission is 
to bring together experts from industry, government, and academia under 
one roof to develop practical, interoperable cybersecurity approaches 
that address the real world needs of complex Information Technology 
(IT) systems. By accelerating dissemination and use of these integrated 
tools and technologies for protecting IT assets, the NCCoE strives to 
enhance trust in U.S. IT communications, data, and storage systems, 
lower risk for companies and individuals in the use of IT systems, and 
encourage development of innovative, job-creating cybersecurity 
products and services.
    As part of the NCCoE initiative, NIST/ITL intends to enter into 
partnerships, called ``National Cybersecurity Excellence Partnerships'' 
(NCEPs), with U.S. companies to collaborate on an ongoing basis in the 
NCCoE. Collaboration agreements will be based upon the statutory 
technology transfer authorities available to NIST, including the 
Federal Technology Transfer Act, 15 U.S.C. 3710a. NIST/ITL intends that 
NCEP collaborators will co-locate with ITL at the NCCoE at 9600 
Gudelsky Drive Rockville, MD 20850 and will contribute to the 
development of the intellectual and physical infrastructure needed to 
support collaborative efforts among NIST and many sources of security 
capabilities, including users and vendors of products and services, on 
holistic approaches to resolve cybersecurity challenges.
    Approaches to resolving cybersecurity challenges will be addressed 
at the NCCoE through individual ``use cases,'' a standard tool used by 
software engineers to define specific function requirements of a system 
from the point of view of a user trying to accomplish a specific task. 
The ``use cases'' developed by NCCoE will incorporate the IT security 
needs of specific communities or sectors. Examples of candidate sectors 
include health care, finance and utilities. The cybersecurity 
challenges that will be the subject of the ``use cases'' will be 
selected by NIST through workshops with input from broad groups of 
stakeholders, as well as public feedback provided via collaborative 
internet participation. Collaborative participation may be accessed via 
links from https://nccoe.nist.gov/. Opportunities to participate in 
individual ``use cases'' will be announced in the Federal Register and 
will be open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. NIST/
ITL envisions that the NCCoE will be capable of supporting multiple 
simultaneous ``use cases'' in various stages. NCEP collaborators will 
neither be obligated to participate in a given ``use case,'' nor will 
they be guaranteed participation in a given ``use case,'' but they will 
be given priority for participation in each ``use case'' only for their 
resources that are already onsite at the NCCoE and for components that 
are interoperable with those onsite resources, within the process 
defined for that ``use case'' as announced in the Federal Register.
    NCEP collaborators selected to participate in a given ``use case'' 
may contribute, but will not be required to contribute, resources in 
addition to those contributed through their NCEP agreement. However, 
priority participation in a ``use case'' will be granted only for 
resources relevant to the ``use case'' that are already onsite in the 
NCCoE and components that are interoperable with those onsite 
resources. Through their collaboration agreements with NIST/ITL, NCEP 
collaborators will agree that resources contributed to the NCCoE 
initiative will be available to all ``use case'' participants, as 
determined by NIST. Through individual ``use case'' consortium 
agreements, all ``use case'' participants, including NIST, NCEP 
collaborators and others, will agree that successful solutions to a 
NCCoE ``use case'' will be thoroughly documented and shared publicly, 
in order to encourage the rapid adoption of comprehensive cybersecurity 
templates and approaches that support automated and trustworthy e-
government and e-commerce.
    Each NCEP will be between NIST and a U.S. company. It is 
anticipated that NCEP agreements will be established for a three-year 
period, with renewal subject to the requirements and interests of the 
collaborator and NIST/ITL.
    Interested U.S. companies are invited to submit a letter of 
interest that contains sufficient information for NIST/ITL to 
objectively determine whether the proposed collaboration is feasible, 
relevant to the NCCoE mission to foster the rapid adoption and broad 
deployment of integrated cybersecurity tools and techniques that 
enhance consumer confidence in U.S. information systems, and has 
potential to advance the state of cybersecurity practice. Companies 
whose proposed collaborations are determined by NIST/ITL to meet all 
three criteria will be invited to enter into negotiations for a 
cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with NIST/ITL. 
Companies whose letters of interest contain insufficient information 
for NIST/ITL to make a determination as to whether the proposed 
collaboration meets all three criteria, and companies whose proposed 
collaboration is determined by NIST/ITL not to meet all three criteria, 
will be notified in writing by NIST/ITL.

    Dated: October 12, 2012.
Willie E. May,
Associate Director for Laboratory Programs.
[FR Doc. 2012-25826 Filed 10-18-12; 8:45 am]
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