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considered during this period. Speakers
who wish to expand upon their oral
statements, those who had wished to
speak but could not be accommodated
on the agenda, and those who were
unable to attend via webinar are invited
to submit written statements to
Stephanie Shaw at stephanie.shaw@
nist.gov.
All participants will be attending via
webinar and must contact Ms. Shaw at
stephanie.shaw@nist.gov by 5:00 p.m.
Eastern Time, Wednesday, February 2,
2022 for detailed instructions on how to
join the webinar.
Alicia Chambers,
NIST Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2021–27088 Filed 12–14–21; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and
Technology
[Docket No. 120912441–2441–01]
National Cybersecurity Center of
Excellence
National Institute of Standards
and Technology, Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; correction.
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). NIST previously
published a notice for this partnership
on October 19, 2012. This notice repeats
the same information contained in the
previous notice but contains updated
contact and mailing information.
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 via email to nccoencep-team@nist.gov; or via hardcopy to
NCCoE, National Institute of Standards
and Technology; 9700 Great Seneca
Highway, Rockville, MD 20850.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Natalia Martin via email at nccoe-ncepteam@nist.gov; or via telephone at 301–
975–0225. For additional information
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on NCCoE governance, business
processes, and operational structure,
visit the NCCoE website, at https://
www.nccoe.nist.gov.
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 Information
Technology (IT)) and Operational
Technology (OT) assets to help
organizations improve their
cybersecurity in the context of their
missions and business objectives, the
NCCoE strives to cultivate 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 9700 Great Seneca
Highway 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 projects;
projects 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 project 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
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accessed via links from https://
nccoe.nist.gov/. Opportunities to
participate in individual projects 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 applied cybersecurity
projects in various stages. NCEP
collaborators will neither be obligated to
participate in a given project, nor will
they be guaranteed participation in a
given project, but they will be given
priority for participation in each project
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 project as announced in the
Federal Register.
NCEP collaborators selected to
participate in a given project may
contribute, but will not be required to
contribute, resources in addition to
those contributed through their NCEP
agreement. However, priority
participation in a project will be granted
only for resources relevant to the
projects 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 project participants,
as determined by NIST. Through
individual project consortium
agreements, all participants, including
NIST, NCEP collaborators and others,
will agree that successful solutions to a
NCCoE project challenge 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/
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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.
Alicia Chambers,
NIST Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2021–27089 Filed 12–14–21; 8:45 am]
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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:
National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST)’s
Advisory Committee on Earthquake
Hazards Reduction (ACEHR or
Committee) will hold a virtual meeting
via web conference on Wednesday,
March 2, 2022, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00
p.m. Eastern Time and Thursday, March
3, 2022, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Eastern Time. The primary purpose of
this meeting is for the Committee to
review the activities of the National
Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program
(NEHRP) and receive responses to the
Committee’s 2021 biennial report on the
effectiveness of NEHRP. The agenda
may change to accommodate Committee
business. The final agenda and any
meeting materials will be posted on the
NEHRP website at https://nehrp.gov/.
DATES: The ACEHR will meet on
Wednesday, March 2, 2022, from 1:00
p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time and
Thursday, March 3, 2022, from 1:00
p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held
virtually via web conference. For
instructions on how to participate in the
meeting, please see the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tina
Faecke, Management and Program
Analyst, NEHRP, Engineering
Laboratory, NIST, 100 Bureau Drive,
Mail Stop 8604, Gaithersburg, Maryland
20899–8604. Ms. Faecke’s email address
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is tina.faecke@nist.gov and her phone
number is (240) 477–9841.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7704(a)(5) and
the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as
amended, 5 U.S.C. App. The Committee
is currently composed of 14 members,
appointed by the Director of NIST, who
were selected for their established
records of distinguished service in their
professional community, their
knowledge of issues affecting NEHRP,
and to reflect the wide diversity of
technical disciplines, competencies, and
communities involved in earthquake
hazards reduction. In addition, the
Chairperson of the U.S. Geological
Survey Scientific Earthquake Studies
Advisory Committee serves as an exofficio member of the Committee.
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C.
App., notice is hereby given that the
ACEHR will meet on Wednesday, March
2, 2022, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Eastern Time and Thursday, March 3,
2022, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Eastern Time. The meeting will be open
to the public, and will be held via web
conference. Interested members of the
public will be able to participate in the
meeting from remote locations. The
primary purpose of this meeting is for
the Committee to review the activities of
NEHRP and receive responses to the
Committee’s 2021 biennial report on the
effectiveness of NEHRP. The agenda
may change to accommodate Committee
business. The final agenda and any
meeting materials will be posted on the
NEHRP website at https://nehrp.gov/.
Individuals and representatives of
organizations who would like to offer
comments and suggestions related to the
Committee’s business are invited to
request a place on the agenda.
Approximately fifteen minutes will be
reserved 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.
Questions from the public will not be
considered during this period. All those
wishing to speak must submit their
request by email to Tina Faecke at
tina.faecke@nist.gov by 5:00 p.m.
Eastern Time, Wednesday, February 23,
2022. Speakers who wish to expand
upon their oral statements, those who
wish to speak but cannot be
accommodated on the agenda, and those
who are unable to attend remotely are
invited to electronically submit written
statements by email to tina.faecke@
nist.gov.
Anyone wishing to attend this
meeting via web conference must
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register by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time,
Wednesday, February 23, 2022. Please
submit your full name, email address,
and phone number to Tina Faecke at
tina.faecke@nist.gov.
Alicia Chambers,
NIST Executive Secretariat.
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Pacific Island Fisheries; Experimental
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Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
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comments.
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NMFS announces that the
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applied for an experimental fishing
permit (EFP) to test tori lines (bird
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intent of the EFP is to test new ways to
discourage seabird interactions that also
increase operational flexibility.
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by January 14, 2022.
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individual, or received after the end of
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
[Docket No. 120912441-2441-01]
National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; correction.
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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). NIST previously published a notice for this
partnership on October 19, 2012. This notice repeats the same
information contained in the previous notice but contains updated
contact and mailing information.
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 via email to
[email protected]; or via hardcopy to NCCoE, National Institute
of Standards and Technology; 9700 Great Seneca Highway, Rockville, MD
20850.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Natalia Martin via email at [email protected]; or via telephone at 301-975-0225. For additional
information on NCCoE governance, business processes, and operational
structure, visit the NCCoE website, at https://www.nccoe.nist.gov.
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 Information Technology (IT)) and
Operational Technology (OT) assets to help organizations improve their
cybersecurity in the context of their missions and business objectives,
the NCCoE strives to cultivate 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 9700 Great
Seneca Highway 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 projects; projects 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
project 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 projects 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 applied cybersecurity projects in various stages.
NCEP collaborators will neither be obligated to participate in a given
project, nor will they be guaranteed participation in a given project,
but they will be given priority for participation in each project 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 project as announced in the Federal
Register.
NCEP collaborators selected to participate in a given project may
contribute, but will not be required to contribute, resources in
addition to those contributed through their NCEP agreement. However,
priority participation in a project will be granted only for resources
relevant to the projects 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 project participants, as determined by NIST. Through
individual project consortium agreements, all participants, including
NIST, NCEP collaborators and others, will agree that successful
solutions to a NCCoE project challenge 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/
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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.
Alicia Chambers,
NIST Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2021-27089 Filed 12-14-21; 8:45 am]
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