Department of the Navy – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Department of the Navy proposes to add a system of records to its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended.

The Department of the Navy is amending its certifications and exemptions under the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (72 COLREGS), to reflect that the Deputy Assistant Judge Advocate General (Admiralty and Maritime Law) has determined that USS SAN ANTONIO (LPD 17) is a vessel of the Navy which, due to its special construction and purpose, cannot fully comply with certain provisions of the 72 COLREGS without interfering with its special function as a naval ship. The intended effect of this rule is to warn mariners in waters where 72 COLREGS apply.

The Department of the Navy is amending its certifications and exemptions under the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (72 COLREGS), to reflect that the Deputy Assistant Judge Advocate General of the Navy (Admiralty and Maritime Law) has determined that Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) is a vessel of the Navy which, due to its special construction and purpose, cannot fully comply with certain provisions of the 72 COLREGS without interfering with its special function as a Naval ship. The intended effect of this rule is to warn mariners in waters where 72 COLREGS apply.

The Department of the Navy is amending its certifications and exemptions under the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (72 COLREGS), to reflect that the Deputy Assistant Judge Advocate General (Admiralty and Maritime Law) has determined that USS BAINBRIDGE (DDG 96) is a vessel of the Navy which, due to its special construction and purpose, cannot fully comply with certain provisions of the 72 COLREGS without interfering with its special function as a naval ship. The intended effect of this rule is to warn mariners in waters where 72 COLREGS apply.

The inventions listed below are assigned to the United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and are available for licensing by the Department of the Navy. U.S. Patent No. 6,731,922: Optical Image Reject Down Converter, Navy Case No. 82,545.// U.S. Patent No. 6,733,838: Robust Nontoxic Antifouling Elastomers, Navy Case No. 83,029.//U.S. Patent No. 6,734,043: Pressure-bonded Heat Sink Method, Navy Case No. 83,954.//U.S. Patent No. 6,737,793: Apparatus for Emitting Electrons Comprising a Subsurface Emitter Structure, Navy Case No. 80,023.//U.S. Patent No. 6,744,035: Passive, Temperature Compensated Techniques for Tunable Filter Calibration in Bragg-grating Interrogation Systems, Navy Case No. 82,373.//U.S. Patent No. 6,744,947: High Power, Low Noise, Fluorescent Device and Methods Related Thereto, Navy Case No. 79,056.//U.S. Patent No. 6,744,986: Tunable Wavelength Add/Drop Multiplexer Based on Integrated Optic Devices, Navy Case No. 82,310.//U.S. Patent No. 6,746,510: Processing of Nanocrystalline Metallic Powders and Coatings Using the Polyol Process, Navy Case No. 82,810.//U.S. Patent No. 6,750,031: Displacement Assay on a Porous Membrane, Navy Case No. 77,298.//U.S. Patent No. 6,756,470: Oligomeric Hydroxy Arylether Phthalonitiles and Synthesis Thereof, Navy Case No. 83,013.//U.S. Patent No. 6,763,271: Tracking Sustained Chaos, Navy Case No. 80,021.//U.S. Patent No. 6,764,561: Palladium-boron Alloys and Methods for Making and Using Such Alloys, Navy Case No. 79,391.//U.S. Patent No. 6,764,860: Ultrasonic Force Differentiation Assay, Navy Case No. 79,227.//U.S. Patent No. 6,764,861: Method of Making High Efficiency Magnetic Sensor for Magnetic Particles, Navy Case No. 79,585.//U.S. Patent No. 6,766,070: High Power Fiber Optic Modulator System and Method, Navy Case No. 80,245.//U.S. Patent No. 6,767,749: Method for Making Piezoelectric Resonator and Surface Acoustic Wave Device Using Hydrogen Implant Layer Splitting, Navy Case No. 79,598.//U.S. Patent No. 6,767,981: Thermoset and Ceramic Containing Silicon and Boron, Navy Case No. 77,642.//U.S. Patent No. 6,770,583: Transistion Metal Containing Ceramic with Metal Nanoparticles, Navy Case No. 77,712.//U.S. Patent No. 6,771,201: Hybrid Photonic Analog to Digital Converter using Superconducting Electronics, Navy Case No. 83,865.//U.S. Patent No. 6,771,798: Hyperspectral Visualization Extensible Workbench, Navy Case No. 79,087.//U.S. Patent No. 6,772,182: Signal Processing Method for Improving the Signal-to- noise Ratio of a Noise-dominated Channel and a Matched-phase Noise Filter for Implementing the Same, Navy Case No. 76,854.//U.S. Patent No. 6,773,865: Anti-charging Layer for Beam Lithography and Mask Fabrication, Navy Case No. 82,897.//U.S. Patent No. 6,777,753: CMOS Devices Hardened against Total Dose Radiation Effects, Navy Case No. 79,812.//U.S. Patent No. 6,777,835: Electrical Power Cooling Technique, Navy Case No. 78,465.//U.S. Patent No. 6,777,937: Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Method and Apparatus, Navy Case No. 82,481.//U.S. Patent No. 6,780,307: Ion Selective Electrodes for Direct Organic Drug Analysis in Saliva, Sweat, and Surface Wipes, Navy Case No. 83,326.//U.S. Patent No. 6,784,259: High Temperature Elastomers from Linear Poly (silarylene-siloxane-acetylene), Navy Case No. 84,545.//U.S. Patent No. 6,784,270: Polymer Containing Borate and Alkynyl Groups, Navy Case No. 77,641.//U.S. Patent No. 6,787,615: Synthesis of Oligomeric Poly(silarylene-siloxane-acetylene)'s and their Conversion to High Temperature Plastics, Elastomers, and Coatings, Navy Case No. 82,942.// U.S. Patent No. 6,787,882: Semiconductor Varactor Diode with Doped Heterojunction, Navy Case No. 80,070.//U.S. Patent No. 6,787,885: Low Temperature Hydrophobic Direct Wafer Bonding, Navy Case No. 83,684.// U.S. Patent No. 6,787,972: Piezoelectric Rotary Pump, Navy Case No. 82,332.//U.S. Patent No. 6,788,794: Thin, Lightweight Acoustic Actuator Tile, Navy Case No. 83,842.//U.S. Patent No. 6,800,913: Hybrid Hall Vector Magnetometer, Navy Case No. 80,025.//U.S. Patent No. 6,802,907: Removing Radar Absorbing Coatings, Navy Case No. 83,976.//U.S. Patent No. 6,803,208: Automated Epifluorescence Microscopy for Detection of Bacterial Contamination in Platelets, Navy Case No. 80,218.//U.S. Patent No. 6,803,598: Si-based Resonant Interband Tunneling Diodes and Method of Making Interband Tunneling Diodes, Navy Case No. 79,496.// U.S. Patent No. 6,805,918: Laser Forward Transfer of Rheological Systems, Navy Case No. 79,702.//U.S. Patent No. 6,806,721: Digital Envelope Detector, Navy Case No. 82,540.//U.S. Patent No. 6,807,343: Reconfigurable Optical Beamformer for Simplified Time Steered Arrays, Navy Case No. 82,546.//U.S. Patent No. 6,809,506: Corrosion Sensor Loudspeaker for Active Noise Control, Navy Case No. 79,597.//U.S. Patent No. 6,818,924: Pulsed Laser Deposition of Transparent Conducting Thin Films on Flexible Substrates, Navy Case No.80,122.//U.S. Patent No. 6,819,984: LOST 2A Positioning System for Under Water Vessels, Navy Case No. 83,099.//U.S. Patent No. 6,820,230: Self Synchronous Scrambler Apparatus and Method for Use in Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing, Navy Case No. 82,350.//U.S. Patent No. 6,824,776: Silica Mesoporous Aerogels Having Three-dimensional Nanoarchitecture with Colloidal Gold-protein Superstructures Nanoglued Therein, Navy Case No. 84,500.//U.S. Patent No. 6,826,223: Surface-emitting Photonic Crystal Distributed Feedback Laser Systems and Methods, Navy Case No. 84,107.//U.S. Patent No. 6,826,480: Similarity Transformation Method for Data Processing and Visualization, Navy Case No. 82,482.// U.S. Patent No. 6,830,728: Device and Method for Pneumatic Gas Sampling for Gas Sensors, Navy Case No. 82,338.//U.S. Patent No. 6,833,019: Microwave Assisted Continuous Synthesis of Nanocrystalline Powders and Coatings Using the Polyol Process, Navy Case No. 83,975.//U.S. Patent No. 6,833,027: Method of Manufacturing High Voltage Schottky Diamond Diodes with Low Boron Doping, Navy Case No. 83,260.//U.S. Patent No. 6,846,345: Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticle Compositions from Metallic and Ethynyl Compounds, Navy Case No. 83,778.//U.S. Patent No. 6,847,446: Chemical Analysis and Detection by Selective Adsorbent Sampling and Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, Navy Case No. 83,965.//U.S. Patent No. 6,847,449: Method and Apparatus for Reducing Speckle in Optical Coherence Tomography Images, Navy Case No. 83,094.// U.S. Patent No. 6,852,289: Methods and Apparatus for Determining Analytes in Various Matrices, Navy Case No. 82,575.//U.S. Patent No. 6,854,058: Low-interference Communications Device using Chaotic Signals, Navy Case No. 82,613.//U.S. Patent No. 6,856,520: Double Sided IGBT Phase Leg Architecture and Clocking Method for Reduced Turn on Loss, Navy Case No. 83,914.//U.S. Patent No. 6,858,372: Resist Composition With Enhanced X-ray and Electron Sensitivity, Navy Case No. 82,940.//U.S. Patent No. 6,861,914: Monolithic Vibration Isolation and an Ultra-High Q Mechanical Resonator, Navy Case No. 83,287.//U.S. Patent No. 6,862,387: Low-loss Compact Reflective Turns in Optical Waveguides, Navy Case No. 83,158.//U.S. Patent No. 6,867,281: Highly Conducting and Transparent Thin Films Formed from New Fluorinated Derivatives of 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene, Navy Case No. 84,103.//U.S. Patent No. 6,867,444: Semiconductor Substrate Incorporating a Neutron Conversion Layer, Navy Case No. 84,785.//U.S. Patent No. 6,868,107: Method for Designing Photonic-crystal Distributed-feedback and Distributed Bragg-reflector Lasers, Navy Case No. 84,592.//U.S. Patent No. 6,869,784: Passivation of Nerve Agents by Surface Modified Enzymes Stabilized by Non-covalent Immobilization on Robust, Stable Particles, Navy Case No. 79,212.//U.S. Patent No. 6,873,893: Missile Warning and Protection System for Aircraft Platforms, Navy Case No. 82,499.//U.S. Patent No. 6,884,861: Metal Nanoparticle Thermoset and Carbon Compositions from Mixtures of Metallocene-aromatic-acetylene Compounds, Navy Case No. 82,591.//U.S. Patent No. 6,888,660: Magnetic Organic Light Emitting Device and Method for Modulating Electroluminescence Intensity, Navy Case No. 84,307.//U.S. Patent No. 6,890,233: Method of Making Low Gate Current Multilayer Emitter with Vertical Thin-film-edge Multilayer Emitter, Navy Case No. 79,853.//U.S. Patent No. 6,890,504: Polymeric and Carbon Compositions with Metal Nanoparticles, Navy Case No. 82,460.//U.S. Patent No. 6,900,633: Substance Detection by Nuclear Quardrupole Resonance using at Least Two Different Excitation Frequencies, Navy Case No. 82,977.//U.S. Patent No. 6,904,444: Pseudo- median Cascaded Canceller, Navy Case No. 82,774.//U.S. Patent No. 6,904,722: Elongated Truss Boom Structures for Space Applications, Navy Case No. 80,124 and any continuations, continuations-in-part divisionals or re-issues thereof.

The inventions listed below are assigned to the United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and are available for licensing by the Department of the Navy. U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/868,445 entitled ``Cascade Avalanche Sorbent Plate Array (CASPAR)'', Navy Case No. 83,324 and Navy Case No. 95,877 entitled ``Thermal Focusing of Collected Analyte on a Micro- Preconcentrator for Optimum Delivery to a Narrow Orifice'' and any continuations, divisionals or re-issues thereof.

The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant to Sensera, Inc., a revocable, nonassignable, exclusive license, to practice in the field of in vitro diagnosis of human disease(s) and determination of disease indicators for the subfields of Point of Care Rapid Diagnosis of Cardiac Infarction Indictors such as cardiac Troponin I, cardiac Troponin T, Myoglobin, and Creatine Kinase- Myocardial Band; Point of Care Rapid Diagnosis of Stroke Indicators; Point of Care Rapid Diagnosis of Cancer Markers such as those for breast, prostate, colorectal, and cervical cancer and Point of Care Rapid Diagnosis of Infectious Disease such as Sexually Transmitted diseases, Hepatitis, TB, tropical traveler's diseases, Lyme disease, toxoplasmosis, cryptosporidium in drinking water, Group A strep, antibiotic resistant staph and strep in the United States and certain foreign countries, the Government-owned inventions described in U.S. Patent No. 5,372,930: Sensors for Ultra-Low Concentration Molecular Recognition, Navy Case No. 73,568//U.S. Patent No. 5,807,758: Chemical and Biological Sensor Using an Ultra-Sensitive Force Transducer, Navy Case No. 76,628//U.S. Patent No. 6,180,418: Force Discrimination Assay, Navy Case No. 78,183//U.S. Patent No. 6,676,904: Nanoporous Membrane Immunosensor, Navy Case No. 80,068.

The inventions listed below are assigned to the United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and are available for licensing by the Department of the Navy. U.S. Patent No. 6,787,885 entitled ``Improved Low Temperature Hydrophobic Direct Wafer Bonding,'' Navy Case No. 83,684; U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/ 353,952 entitled ``Microwave-Attenuating Composite Materials, Methods for Preparing the Same, Intermediates for Preparing the Same, Devices Containing the Same, Methods for Preparing Such a Device, and Methods of Attenuation Microwaves, Navy Case No. 83,273 and Navy Case No. 96,792 entitled ``Sheath Flow Method and Apparatus for Laminar Flow Systems'' and any continuations, continuations in part, divisionals or re-issues thereof.

The Naval Research Advisory Committee (NRAC) will meet to hold classified briefs of proprietary information. All sessions of the meetings will be devoted to briefings, discussions and technical examination of information related to the assessment of modern lighter than air applications and their potential value for the full spectrum of Navy missions from an affordability and utility perspective and to meet current and new threat needs. The sessions will also identify, review, and assess technologies for reducing fuel consumption and for militarily useful alternative fuels.

The Department of the Navy proposes to add a system of records to its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended.

The inventions listed below are assigned to the United States Government, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and are available for licensing by the Department of the Navy. U.S. Patent No. 6,879,011 entitled ``Magnetically Shielded Circuit Board'' and U.S. Patent Application No. 11/108,150 entitled ``Method for Field Calibrating an Ion Spectrometer''.

Pursuant to section (102)(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, and the regulations implemented by the Council on Environmental Quality (40 CFR parts 1500-1508), the Department of the Navy (Navy) intends to prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the Introduction of the F/A- 18 E/F Super Hornet Aircraft to the East Coast of the United States. The SEIS will provide additional analysis of the environmental consequences associated with the construction and operation of an Outlying Landing Field (OLF) to support Field Carrier Landing Practice (FCLP) operations of Super Hornet squadrons stationed at Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana, Virginia, and Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point, North Carolina.

The Department of the Navy published a document in the Federal Register of May 25, 2005, announcing a closed meeting of the CNO Executive Panel. The document contained incorrect date and time.

The U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors will meet to make such inquiry, as the Board shall deem necessary into the state of morale and discipline, the curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, and academic methods of the Naval Academy. The meeting will include discussions of personnel issues at the Naval Academy, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. The executive session of this meeting will be closed to the public.

The inventions listed below are assigned to the United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and are available for licensing by the Department of the Navy. U.S. Patent Application No. 09/668,407: Multiple-Buffer Queuing of Data Packets with High Throughput Rate, Navy Case No. 84,834.//U.S. Patent Application No. 09/715,772: Multi-Thread Peripheral Processing Using Dedicated Peripheral Bus, Navy Case No. 84,781.//U.S. Patent Application No. 09/715,778: Prioritizing Resource Utilization in Multi- Thread Computing System, Navy Case No. 84,779.//U.S. Patent Application No. 09/833,578: System and Method for Data Forwarding in a Programmable Multiple Network, Navy Case No. 84,886.//U.S. Patent Application No. 09/833,580: System and Method for Instruction-Level Parallelism in a Programmable Network Processor Environment, Navy Case No. 84,888.//U.S. Patent Application No. 09/833,581: System and Method for Processing Overlapping Tasks in a Programmable Network Processor Environment, Navy Case No. 84,885.//U.S. Patent Application No. 09/859,150: Adaptive Control of Multiplexed Input Buffer Channels, Navy Case No. 84,831.// U.S. Patent Application No. 09/933,786: Shift Processing Unit, Navy Case No. 84,832 and any continuations, divisionals or re-issues thereof.

The Department of the Navy is exempting the records contained in the Privacy Act system of records notice N12410-2, entitledNCIS Training Academy Records. The exemption is intended to preserve the objectivity and/or fairness of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) test or examination process.

The inventions listed below are assigned to the U.S. Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and are available for licensing by the Department of the Navy. U.S. Patent No. 6,745,715: STERN FLAP CORRECTIVE MOTION AND FUEL SAVING CONTROL SYSTEM FOR MARINE VESSELS.//U.S. Patent No. 6,746,005: CONSTANT NATURAL FREQUENCY PASSIVE-ACTIVE MOUNT.//U.S. Patent No. 6,751,161: FLUIDBORNE SOUND PROJECTOR WITH SWEEP CLEANING FACILITIES.// U.S. Patent No. 6,752,921: BIOREACTOR TANK INTERNALLY CHAMBERED TO SEQUENTIALLY PERFORM BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT AND MEMBRANE FILTRATION.// U.S. Patent No. 6,765,487: UNDERWATER DETECTION AND DETERRENT SYSTEM.// U.S. Patent No. 6,773,851: SYNTHESIS OF LI2MN409 USING LITHIUM PERMANGANATE PRECURSOR.//U.S. Patent No. 6,779,476: LOW SOLAR ABSORBING NONSKID COMPOSITION AND APPLIED CONFIGURATION FOR A FLIGHT DECK.//U.S. Patent No. 6,798,632: POWER FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD COMPENSATION SYSTEM.//U.S. Patent No. 6,799,126: NONDESTRUCTIVE METHOD FOR DETECTING STRUCTUAL ANOMALIES IN COMPOSITES.//U.S. Patent No. 6,799,396: WATERTIGHT DOOR CLOSURE.//U.S. Patent No. 6,802,962: DECK DRAIN COVER PLATE ASSEMBLY.//U.S. Patent No. 6,805,067: CONTOUR STERN FLAP.//U.S. Patent No. 6,810,365: MONITORING WASTE LIQUID TO DETERMINE MEMBRANE CLEANSING PERFORMANCE.//U.S. Patent No. 6,847,153: POLYURETHANE ELECTROSTRICTION.//U.S. Patent No. 6,854,279: DYNAMIC DESICCATION COOLING SYSTEM FOR SHIPS.//U.S. Patent No. 6,864,858: RADAR REFLECTING RESCUE DEVICE.//U.S. Patent No. 6,879,256: SEAL COMPRESSION INDICATION SYSTEM.

The CNO Executive Panel is to provide consensus advice to the Chief of Naval Operations. The meeting will consist of discussions on strategy, force structure, personnel and organizational issues facing the Navy.

The inventions listed below are assigned to the United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and are available for domestic and foreign licensing by the Department of the Navy. The following patents are available for licensing: U.S. Patent No. 6,759,661: MINIATURE HIGH INTENSITY LED ILLUMINATION SOURCE.//U.S. Patent No. 6,766,992: MOUNTING BRACKET FOR ATTACHMENT TO FLAT OR CYLINDRICAL SURFACES. Patent No. 6,767,261: THREE-DIMENSIONAL VORTEX WAKE CANCELLING JET PROPULSION METHOD.//U.S. Patent No. 6,772,704: METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING DESIGN PARAMETERS FOR A SHIP ROLL STIMULATION SYSTEM.//U.S. Patent No. 6,779,475: LAUNCH AND RECOVERY SYSTEM FOR UNMANNED UNDERWATER VEHICLES.//U.S. Patent No. 6,779,569: LIQUID FILLING CONTROL METHOD FOR MULTIPLE TANKS.//U.S. Patent No. 6,781,380: ACTIVE MAGNETIC ANOMALY SENSING ARRAY AND PROCESSING SYSTEM.//U.S. Patent No. 6,796,307: MULTIPLE PERSON HIGH ALTITUDE RECYCLING BREATHING APPARATUS.//U.S. Patent No. 6,802,236: SYSTEM FOR IN-STRIDE IDENTIFICATION OF MINELIKE CONTACTS FOR SURFACE COUNTERMEASURES.//U.S. Patent No. 6,802,237: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NEUTRALIZATION OF MINES USING ROBOTICS AND PENETRATING RODS.//U.S. Patent No. 6,802,260: SAFETY AND ARMING DEVICE USING CELLULOSE-BASED SENSOR/ACTUATOR.//U.S. Patent No. 6,802,370: PERSONAL COOLING SYSTEM FOR SHIPBOARD FIREFIGHTERS.//U.S. Patent No. 6,811,112: ACTIVE FEEDBACK LEVELWINDING SYSTEM.//U.S. Patent No. 6,837,240: DISPLAY SYSTEM UPGRADE FOR A FULL FACE MASK.//U.S. Patent No. 6,841,994: MAGNETIC ANOMALY SENSING SYSTEM FOR DETECTION, LOCALIZATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF MAGNETIC OBJECTS.//U.S. Patent No. 6,850,152: NON-FLAMMABLE LAND AND SEA MARKER.//U.S. Patent No. 6,851,381: AIRBORNE MINE NEUTRALIZATION SYSTEM, NEUTRALIZER PRESSURE RELIEF VALVE.//U.S. Patent No. 6,853,875: SYSTEM FOR THE COMBINED HANDLING, DELIVERY AND/OR PROTECTION OF MULTIPLE STANDARDIZED CONTAINERS AND THEIR CONROLLABLE PAYLOADS.//U.S. Patent No. 6,854,410: UNDERWATER INVESTIGATION SYSTEM USING MULTIPLE UNMANNED VEHICLES.// U.S. Patent No. 6,854,412: UNDERWATER VACUUM ATTACHMENT DEVICE.//

The inventions listed below are assigned to the United States Government, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and are available for licensing by the Department of the Navy. U.S. Patent No. 6,873,886 entitled ``Modular Mission Payload Control Software'' and U.S. Patent No. 6,876,321 entitled ``Pulse Descriptor Word Collector.''

The purpose of the meeting is to elicit the advice of the board on the Naval Service's Postgraduate Education Program and the collaborative exchange and partnership between NPS and the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). The board examines the effectiveness with which the NPS is accomplishing its mission. To this end, the board will inquire into the curricula; instruction; physical equipment; administration; state of morale of the student body, faculty, and staff; fiscal affairs; and any other matters relating to the operation of the NPS as the board considers pertinent. This meeting will be open to the public.

The Board of Visitors of the Marine Corps University (BOV MCU) will meet to review, develop, and provide recommendations on all aspects of the academic and administrative policies of the University; examine all aspects of professional military education operations; and provide such oversight and advice, as is necessary, to facilitate high educational standards and cost effective operations. The Board will be focusing primarily on the University's curriculum review process and reorganization efforts. The Board will be apprised of recent developments at Marine Corps University, including facilities development and the results of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Off-Site Committee Report. All sessions of the meeting will be open to the public.

The Department of the Navy published a notice in the Federal Register of March 16, 2005, announcing intent to grant a partially exclusive license with Autoliv, Inc. The notice contained an incorrect type of license to be granted and an incorrect company name.

The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant to Assure Bioassay Controls, Inc., a revocable, nonassignable, exclusive license in the United States to practice the Government-Owned invention(s) described in U.S. Patent No. 5,840,572 entitled ``Bioluminescent Bioassay System'' and U.S. Patent No. 5,565,360 entitled ``Bioluminescent Bioassay System.''

The Secretary of the Navy's sole delegate for service of process, the Navy General Counsel, is changing the address where the service of process documents shall be delivered. This action is being taken in order to streamline the service process and expedite legal response on behalf of the Department of the Navy.