Defense Giants Team Up Safely: Antitrust Shield Grows with New Recruits
Published Date: 1/24/2025
Notice
Summary
The Defense Industrial Based Consortium (DIBC) just updated its member list, adding lots of new companies from all over the U.S. This change helps keep their special legal protections against big antitrust lawsuits in place. If you’re part of these industries, watch for how this might affect teamwork and innovation starting now—no extra costs announced yet!
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
New Members Gain Antitrust Protection
On October 18, 2024, the Defense Industrial Based Consortium (DIBC) filed changes adding many companies to its membership. That filing was made to extend the National Cooperative Research and Production Act protections that limit the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances, which benefits member companies by narrowing potential antitrust recoveries.
Specific Firms Withdrew From Consortium
The notice states that RTX d/b/a Pratt & Whitney (East Hartford, CT), Marvell Government Solutions LLC (Burlington, VT), and Applied Research Associates, Inc. (Albuquerque, NM) have withdrawn as parties to the DIBC venture. Those firms are no longer parties to the group research project named in this notice.
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