Department of Defense June 21, 2010 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

DoD is adopting as final, with changes, the interim rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement determinations made by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics with regard to the acquisition of items containing para-aramid fibers and yarns manufactured in foreign countries that have entered into a reciprocal defense procurement memorandum of understanding with the United States.

Under the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972, the Government in the Sunshine Act of 1976, and Federal regulations governing advisory committee meetings, the Department of Defense announces a Federal advisory committee meeting for the United States Military Academy Board of Visitors. This is the 2010 Summer Meeting of the USMA Board of Visitors. Members of the Board will be provided updates on Academy issues.

The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant to Fiber Optic Sensor Systems Technology Corporation a revocable, nonassignable, exclusive license to practice the field of use of electrical power measurements for the measurement or control of temperature, pressure, strain, vibration, acceleration, and any other measurement enabled in electrical power systems, including but not limited to, substations, generating facilities, transmission lines, distribution facilities and other electrical power infrastructure and in electrical power systems equipment, including but not limited to, generators, motors, transformers, switches, power supplies, batteries and other devices employed to generate, transform, transport, distribute or store electrical energy in the United States, the Government-owned inventions described in U.S. Patent No. 7,149,374: Fiber Optic Pressure Sensor, Navy Case No. 84,557.//U.S. Patent No. 7,379,630: Multiplexed Fiber Optic Sensor System, Navy Case No. 97,488.//U.S. Patent No. 7,460,740: Intensity Modulated Fiber Optic Static Pressure Sensor System, Navy Case No. 97,279.//U.S. Patent No. 7,646,946: Intensity Modulated Fiber Optic Strain Sensor, Navy Case No. 97,005.//U.S. Patent No. 7,697,798: Fiber Optic Pressure Sensors and Catheters, Navy Case No. 97,569.//U.S. Patent Application No. 12/ 692,830: Miniature Fiber Optic Temperature Sensors, Navy Case No. 98,030.//U.S. Patent Application No. 12/698,646: Miniature Fiber Optic Temperature Sensors, Navy Case No. 100,134 and any continuations, divisionals or re-issues thereof.