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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 JIMMY CARTER (SSN 23) 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 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 Number 6,233,740 entitled ``Aircrew Integrated Recovery Survival Vest'', Navy Case Number 79737, Inventors Meyers et al., Issue date May 22, 2001/U.S. Patent Number 6,485,142 entitled ``Artificial Human Eye and Test Apparatus'', Navy Case Number 75094, Inventors Sheehy et al., Issued date November 26, 2002/ U.S. Patent Number 6,598,802 entitled ``Effervescent Liquid Fine Mist Apparatus and Method'', Navy Case Number 83122, Inventor Wolfe, Issue date July 29, 2003/ U.S. Patent Number 6,240,742 entitled ``Modular Portable Air Conditioning System'', Navy Case Number 79780, Inventor Kaufman, Issue date June 05, 2001/ U.S. Patent Number 6,241,164 entitled ``Effervescent Liquid Fine Mist Apparatus and Method'', Navy Case Number 82406, Inventor Wolfe, Issue date June 05, 2001/ U.S. Patent Number 6,669,764 entitled ``Pretreatment for Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys'', Navy Case 84378, Inventors Matzdorf et al., Issue date December 30, 2003/ U.S. Patent Number 6,663,700 entitled ``Post-treatment for Metal Coated Substrates'', Navy Case Number 84379, Inventors Matzdorf et al., Issue date December 16, 2003/ Navy Case Number 95892 entitled ``Improved Corrosion Resistant Seal for Phosphoric Acid Anodize Coatings on Aluminum and its Alloys'', Inventors Matzdorf et al., Dated September 20, 2003/ Navy Case Number 96346 entitled ``Trivalent Chromium Conversion Coatings for Ferrous Alloys'', Inventors Matzdorf et al., Dated April 15, 2004/ Navy Case Number 96347 entitled ``Trivalent Chromium Conversion Coatings for Magnesium Alloys'', Inventor Matzdorf et al., Date April 15, 2004/ Navy Case Number 96343 entitled ``Trivalent Chromium/Zirconium Coatings for use on Metal Substrates, Masking Agents, Buffers, Solution Stabilizers, Inventors Matzdorf et al., Dated April 15, 2004/ Navy Case Number 97039 entitled ``High- Performance, Thin-Film Protective Coatings for Aluminum'', Inventors Matzdorf et al., Dated December 14, 2004.

The CNO Executive Panel is to report the final findings and recommendations of the New Concepts Study Group to the Chief of Naval Operations. The meeting will consist of discussions of perceived capability gaps in Information Operations (IO) that the Navy must address as it moves to reshape its fleet architecture and concept of operations.

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. 10/355,162: Magnetic Nanoparticles Having Passivated Metallic Cores, Navy Case No. 83,289.//U.S. Patent Application No. 10/ 364,513: Nanoparticle Manganese Zinc Ferrites Synthesized Using Reverse Micelles, Navy Case No. 83,484.//U.S. Patent Application No. 10/ 414,571: Fluorescent-Magnetic Nanoparticles With Core-Shell Structure, Navy Case No. 84,548.

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. 97,198 entitled ``Method for Modifying Nitride Substrates for Covalent Immobilization of Aminated Molecules''.

The Ocean Research Advisory Panel (ORAP) will meet to discuss National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) activities. All sessions of the meeting will remain open to the public.

The Department of the Navy published a document in the Federal Register of April 26, 2005, announcing a closed meeting of the CNO Executive Panel. The document contained incorrect date and time.

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''.

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. U.S. Patent Application No. 10/081,901: Production of Hollow Metal Microcylinders from Lipids, Navy Case No. 83,603.

The CNO Executive Panel is to report the findings and recommendations of the Future Force Study Group to the Chief of Naval Operations. The meeting will consist of discussions on the Navy's future fleet and network architectures.

The CNO Executive Panel is to report the findings and recommendations of the East Asia Strategy Study Group to the Chief of Naval Operations. The meeting will consist of discussions on a maritime strategy for East Asia.

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. U.S. Patent No. 6,844,875: Video Converter Board.

The inventions listed below are 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. U.S. Patent number 6,317,694 entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Selecting a Sand Pack Mesh for a Filter Pack and a Well Casing Slot size for a Well.'' U.S. Patent number 6,305,878 entitled ``Adjustable Depth Air Sparging Well.'' U.S. Patent number 6,644,230 entitled ``Locking Marine Bitt.''

The following invention 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.

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. U.S. Patent No. 6,857,371: Two Payload Decoy Device.

The Department of the Navy gives notice of its intent to grant Autoliv, Inc., a revocable, nonassignable, partially exclusive license, with exclusive field of use in airbag inflators, in the United States to practice the Government-Owned invention, U.S. Patent Number 6,562,160 B2 entitled ``Airbag Propellant.''

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