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The CNO Executive Panel will report on the findings and recommendations of the Innovation and Technology Transition Subcommittee to the CNO. The meeting will consist of discussions of the U.S. Navy's Innovation and Technology Transition strategies and policies.

The Naval Research Advisory Committee (NRAC) will meet to discuss classified information from government organizations. All sessions of the meeting will be devoted to briefings, discussions, and technical examination of issues related to maritime strategy and Department of the Navy plans, programs, and objectives. It is envisioned that these discussions will enable the NRAC to identify technology gaps where additional science and technology investment may be needed to satisfy current and projected Navy and Marine Corps requirements.

The Department of the Navy is amending a system of records notice in its existing 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 a system of records notice in its existing 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 KIDD (DDG 100) 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 deleting a system of records notice from its existing inventory of records systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended.

The Department of the Navy is deleting a system of records notice from its existing inventory of records systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended.

The invention listed below is assigned to the United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and is available for licensing by the Department of the Navy. Navy Case No. 96,141: MULTIFUNCTIONAL SELF-DECONTAMINATING SURFACE COATINGS and any continuations, continuations-in-part, divisionals, or reissues 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 No. 5,656,933: SOLDER PASTE AND RESIDUE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, Navy Case No. 76777, Inventors Frederickson et al, Issue date August 12, 1997.//U.S. Patent No. 5,721,632: EXCITED STATE POLARIZATION ALTERING OPTICAL FILTER, Navy Case No. 76540, Inventors Billmers et al, Issue date February 24, 1998.//U.S. Patent No. 5,822,045: MODULATOR LIDAR SYSTEM Navy Case No. 77098, Inventors Contarino et al, Issue date October 13, 1998.//Navy Case No. 95903: BOND INTEGRITY TOOL, Inventors Oh et al, U.S. Patent Application No. 11/417,287 filed May 01, 2006.// U.S. Patent No. 5,875,154: BARREL STAVE FLEXITENSIONAL PROJECTOR, Inventor DeChico, Issue date February 23, 1999.//U.S. Patent No. 5,921,294: AIR REFUELING DROGUE, Inventors Greenhalgh et al, Issue date July 13, 1999.//Navy Case No. 96400: APPARATUS AND METHOD TO AMALGAMATE SUBSTANCES, Inventors Wolfe et al, U.S. Patent Application No. 11/ 357,460 filed February 14, 2006. U.S. Patent No. 6,411,450: METHOD OF ASSESSING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A LASER EYE PROTECTION DEVICE, Navy Case No. 82425, Inventors Gatewood Jr. et al, Issue date June 25, 2002.// U.S. Patent No. 7,010,339: HYBRID LIDAR-RADAR FOR MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS, Navy Case No. 82987, Inventors Mullen et al, Issue date March 07, 2006.// U.S. Patent No. 7,025,304: HELICOPTER MESSENGER CABLE ILLUMINATION, Navy Case No. 83822, Inventor Kolliopoulo, Issue date April 11, 2006.

The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant to Elemental Wireless, LLC, a revocable, nonassignable, partially exclusive license in the United States to practice the Government-Owned inventions described in U.S. Patent No. 5,062,083: PING ELONGATOR-MODULATOR FOR REALISTIC ECHO SYNTHESIS, issue date October 29, 1991.//U.S. Patent No. 5,073,784: TRANSMITTER LOCATION SYSTEM FOR FREQUENCIES BELOW Hf, issue date December 17, 1991.//U.S. Patent No. 5,264,693: MICROELECTRONIC PHOTOMULTIPLIER DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED CIRCUITRY, issue date November 23, 1993.//U.S. Patent No. 5,272,476: DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM HAVING NOVEL, LOW POWER CIRCUIT FOR TIME- DIVISION- MULTIPLEXING SENSOR ARRAY SIGNALS, issue date December 21, 1993.//U.S. Patent No. 5,276,695: MULTIFREQUENCY, RAPIDLY SEQUENCED OR SIMULTANEOUS TUNABLE LASER, issue date January 4, 1994.//U.S. Patent No. 5,285,467: COMPACT, EFFICIENT, SCALABLE NEODYMIUM LASER CO-DOPED WITH ACTIVATOR IONS AND PUMPED BY VISIBLE LASER DIODES, issue date February 8, 1994.//U.S. Patent No. 5,306,904: MULTILAYER MICROELECTRONIC PHOTOMULTIPLIER DEVICE WITH A STACKED SERIES OF DYNODE AND INSULATING LAYERS, issue date April 26, 1994.//U.S. Patent No. 5,310,989: METHOD FOR LASER-ASSISTED ETCHING OF III-V AND II-VI SEMICONDUCTOR COMPOUNDS USING CHLOROFLUOROCARBON AMBIENTS, issue date May 10, 1994.//U.S. Patent No. 5,310,990: METHOD OF LASER PROCESSING FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS, issue date May 10, 1994.//U.S. Patent No. 5,341,463: SELECTIVE POLYGON MAP DISPLAY METHOD, issue date August 23, 1994.//U.S. Patent No. 5,475,802: SELECTIVE POLYGON MAP DISPLAY METHOD, issue date December 12, 1995.//U.S. Patent No. 5,648,940: PULSE CODED SONAR HAVING IMPROVED DOPPLER DETERMINATION FEATURE, issue date July 15, 1997.//U.S. Patent No. 5,736,950: SIGMA-DELTA MODULATOR WITH TUNABLE SIGNAL PASSBAND, issue date April 7, 1998.//U.S. Patent No. 5,737,347: LASER WITH MULTIPLE GAIN ELEMENTS, issue date April 7, 1998.//U.S. Patent No. 5,754,496: DETECTOR EMPLOYING LOGIC CIRCUITRY FOR THE SELECTIVE SCREENING OF SIGNALS (U), issue date May 19, 1998.// U.S. Patent No. 5,757,867: DIGITAL MIXING TO BASEBAND DECIMATION FILTER, issue date May 26, 1998.//U.S. Patent No. 5,760,722: DISTRIBUTED QUANTIZATION NOISE TRANSMISSION ZEROS IN CASCADED SIGMA- DELTA MODULATORS, issue date June 2, 1998.//U.S. Patent No. 5,764,677: LASER DIODE POWER COMBINER, issue date June 9, 1998.//U.S. Patent No. 5,789,961: NOISE- AND COUPLING-TUNED SIGNAL PROCESSOR WITH ARRAYS OF NONLINEAR DYNAMIC ELEMENTS, issue date August 4, 1998.//U.S. Patent No. 5,805,635: SECURE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, issue date September 8, 1998.// U.S. Patent No. 5,892,765: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFECTUATING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN NETWORKS OPERATING ASYNCHRONOUSLY WITH RESPECT TO ONE ANOTHER, issue date April 6, 1999.//U.S. Patent No. 6,008,642: STOCHASTIC RESONANCE DETECTOR FOR WEAK SIGNALS, issue date December 28, 1999.//U.S. Patent No. 6,040,801: LOW DUTY CYCLE NAVIGATION SYSTEM, issue date March 21, 2000.//U.S. Patent No. 6,052,100: COMPUTER CONTROLLED THREE-DIMENSIONAL VOLUMETRIC DISPLAY, issue date April 18, 2000.//U.S. Patent No. 6,061,821: CONTEXT BASED ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION FOR BINARY ENCODED TEXT MESSAGES, issue date May 9, 2000.// U.S. Patent No. 6,067,448: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ISOLATING RADIO FREQUENCY SIGNALS, issue date May 23, 2000.//U.S. Patent No. 6,133,865: Cw CONVERTER CIRCUIT, issue date October 17, 2000.//U.S. Patent No. 6,137,609: OVER-THE-HORIZON OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS TRANSCEIVER, issue date October 24, 2000.//U.S. Patent No. 6,138,572: THREE-BEAM PASSIVE INFRARED GUIDED MISSILE FUSE (U), issue date October 31, 2000.//U.S. Patent No. 6,166,680: RANGE DEPENDENT TIME DELAY TARGET DETECTING DEVICE, issue date December 26, 2000.//U.S. Patent No. 6,177,913: VOLUMETRIC DISPLAY, issue date January 23, 2001.//U.S. Patent No. 6,198,425: PULSE DOPPLER TARGET DETECTING DEVICE, issue date March 6, 2001.//U.S. Patent No. 6,229,847: SIGNAL QUALITY MEASUREMENT DEVICE, issue date May 8, 2001.//U.S. Patent No. 6,232,931: OPTO-ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLED FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACE, issue date May 15, 2001.//U.S. Patent No. 6,342,866: WIDEBAND ANTENNA SYSTEM, issue date January 29, 2002.//U.S. Patent No. 6,395,435: PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHIC MASK HAVING TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIVE SURFACES, issue date May 28, 2002.//U.S. Patent No. 6,404,038: COMPLEMENTARY VERTICAL BIPOLAR JUNCTION TRANSISTORS FABRICATED OF SILICON- ON-SAPPHIRE UTILIZING WIDE BASE Pnp TRANSISTORS, issue date June 11, 2002.//U.S. Patent No. 6,414,305: AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING MINIMUM RESOLVABLE TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES, issue date July 2, 2002.//U.S. Patent No. 6,437,890: LASER COMMUNICATIONS LINK, issue date August 20, 2002.//U.S. Patent No. 6,448,941: METHOD FOR SECURE COMMUNICATIONS USING SPIRAL ANTENNAS, issue date September 10, 2002.//U.S. Patent No. 6,459,745: FREQUENCY/TIMING RECOVERY CIRCUIT FOR ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXED SIGNALS, issue date October 1, 2002.//U.S. Patent No. 6,466,184: THREE DIMENSIONAL VOLUMETRIC DISPLAY, issue date October 15, 2002.//U.S. Patent No. 6,507,252: HIGH REJECTION EVANESCENT MIC MULTIPLEXERS FOR MULTIFUNCTIONAL SYSTEMS, issue date January 14, 2003.//U.S. Patent No. 6,525,325 SYSTEM FOR QUANTIFYING THE HYDROCARBON CONTENT OF AQUEOUS MEDIA, issue date February 25, 2003.//U.S. Patent No. 6,549,560: COMB LIMITER COMBINER FOR FREQUENCY-HOPPED COMMUNICATIONS, issue date April 15, 2003.//U.S. Patent No. 6,584,300: OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEM FOR SIMULATING SONAR TARGET ACOUSTIC SCATTERING, issue date June 24, 2003.//U.S. Patent No. 6,619,866: DYNAMIC RANGE EXTENDED FOR OPTICAL TRANSMITTERS, issue date September 16, 2003.//U.S. Patent No. 6,622,092: PREDICTOR FOR OPTIMAL BROADBAND IMPEDANCE MATCHING, issue date September 16, 2003.//U.S. Patent No. 6,625,896: ELECTROLYTIC TILT SENSOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, issue date September 30, 2003.//U.S. Patent No. 6,631,156: DIGITAL DATA COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, issue date October 7, 2003.//U.S. Patent No. 6,661,566: METHOD AND OPTICAL SWITCH FOR ALTERING AN ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY WAVE IN RESPONSE TO ACCELERATION FORCES, issue date December 9, 2003.//U.S. Patent No. 6,671,304: AMPLITUDE-MODULATED LASER FOR HIGH-BANDWIDTH COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, issue date December 30, 2003.//U.S. Patent No. 6,710,737: CALIBRATOR FOR RADAR TARGET SIMULATOR, issue date March 23, 2004.//U.S. Patent No. 6,727,941: UNIVERSAL DIGITAL CAMERA CONTROLLER WITH AUTOMATIC IRIS TUNING, issue date April 27, 2004.//U.S. Patent No. 6,753,994: SPATIALLY CONFORMABLE TUNABLE FILTER, issue date June 22, 2004.//U.S. Patent No. 6,782,063: AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL, issue date August 24, 2004.//U.S. Patent No. 6,784,670: DUAL CHAMBERED ANECHOIC CHAMBER, issue date August 31, 2004.//U.S. Patent No. 6,802,132: ELECTROLYTIC TILT SENSOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, issue date October 12, 2004.//U.S. Patent No. 6,822,522: METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN IMPROVED NONLINEAR OSCILLATOR, issue date November 23, 2004.//U.S. Patent No. 6,842,013: METHOD FOR MAKING TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS IN A DUAL- CHAMBERED ANECHOIC CHAMBER USING SPATIAL AVERAGING, issue date January 11, 2005.//U.S. Patent No. 6,925,136: SIMULTANEOUS FREQUENCY AND PHASE SYNCHRONIZER, issue date August 2, 2005.//U.S. Patent No. 6,943,358: METHOD FOR DEVELOPING A CALIBRATION ALGORITHM FOR QUANTIFYING THE HYDROCARBON CONTENT OF AQUEOUS MEDIA, issue date September 13, 2005.// U.S. Patent No. 6,947,504: FREQUENCY SYNCHRONIZER, issue date September 20, 2005.//U.S. Patent No. 6,948,388: WIRELESS REMOTE SENSOR, issue date September 27, 2005.//U.S. Patent No. 6,958,466: METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING TARGETS KNOWN UP TO A SIMPLEX FROM MULTI-SPECTRAL AND HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGERY EMPLOYING THE NORMAL COMPOSITIONAL MODEL, issue date October 25, 2005.

The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant to Hart Biologicals, Ltd., a revocable, nonassignable, exclusive license to practice in the field of use for production of calibration and control materials for use in the International Normalized Ratio monitor blood coagulation test market in the United States and certain foreign countries, the Government-owned inventions described in U.S. Patent No. 6,358,678: Applications of Reversible Crosslinking and Co-Treatment in Stabilization and Viral Inactivations of Erythrocytes, Navy Case No. 78,253.//U.S. Patent No. 6,436,705: Shape Stabilized Erythrocytes, Navy Case No. 83,638 and any continuations, divisionals or re-issues thereof.

The Department of the Navy announces its decision to conduct all components of ``air-to-ground ordnance delivery and training'' of integrated and sustainment levels of the Fleet Forces Command's Fleet Readiness Training Program at Avon Park Air Force Range, Florida. Air- to-ground readiness training includes delivery of inert and high- explosive ordnance from tactical jets such as the Navy's Hornet and Super Hornet strike/fighter aircraft.

The Department of the Navy herby gives notice of its intent to grant to Soil and Topography Information, LLC., a revocable, nonassignable, exclusive license in the United States to practice the Government-Owned invention(s) described in U.S. Patent Number 5,316,950 entitled ``Method for quantitative calibration of in situ optical chemical measurements in soils using soil class and characteristics'', issue date May 31, 2002.

The U.S. Marine Corps is deleting one system of records notice from its inventory of records systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (5 U.S.C. 552a).

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

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

The invention listed below is assigned to the U.S. Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and is available for licensing by the Department of the Navy. U.S. Patent No. 6,157,875: Image Guided Weapon System and Method.

The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of the availability of exclusive or partially exclusive licenses to practice worldwide under the following pending patents. Any license granted shall comply with 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR part 404. Applications will be evaluated utilizing the following criteria: (1) Ability to manufacture and market the technology; (2) manufacturing and marketing ability; (3) time required to bring technology to market and production rate; (4) royalties; (5) technical capabilities; and (6) small business status. U.S. Patent application Serial Number 10/855,325 entitled, ``A Method for the Rapid Diagnosis of Infectious Disease by Detection and Quantitation of Microorganism Induced Cytokines'' filed on May 28, 2004. The invention relates to a method of diagnosing infectious disease, including tuberculosis, by quantitating interferon-gamma and other cytokine concentrations from stimulated immune cells collected from whole blood. The method contemplates the use of FLT, FRET or FP.

Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 and the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500-1508) implementing the procedural provisions of NEPA, the United States Department of the Navy (Navy) gives notice that a Final SPEA has been prepared and an Environmental Impact Statement is not required for implementation of the 2006 Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercises.

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

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

The CNO Executive Panel will report on the findings and recommendations of the Global Governance Subcommittee to the Chief of Naval Operations. The meeting will consist of discussions of the U.S. Navy's emerging missions and relationships with non-military organizations.

The CNO Executive Panel will report on the findings and recommendations of the China Subcommittee to the Chief of Naval Operations. The meeting will consist of discussions of the U.S. Navy's maritime strategy for China.

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.