Department of Justice Releases Notice on ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas Membership Changes

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The Department of Justice has issued a notice about the Research Group on ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas. This notice appears in the Federal Register, Volume 90, Number 154, dated Wednesday, August 13, 2025.

The notification comes under the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993. On June 18, 2025, the Southwest Research Institute–Cooperative Research Group on ROS-Industrial Consortium-Americas (called “RIC-Americas”) sent updates about its membership to the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission.

Two new organizations were added to the group. These are Edison Welding Institute in Columbus, Ohio, and Zachry Corporation in San Antonio, Texas. At the same time, Tormach, Inc., from Madison, Wisconsin, has withdrawn as a party to this research group.

No other changes have been made in the group’s membership or activities. The group’s membership is still open. RIC-Americas will continue to file written updates about any new membership changes.

RIC-Americas first filed for coverage under this Act on April 30, 2014. The Department of Justice published a notice in the Federal Register on June 9, 2014, about this filing.

The last update was sent to the Department on August 29, 2023. A notice for that update appeared in the Federal Register on November 20, 2023.

This current notice is signed by Suzanne Morris, Deputy Director of Civil Enforcement Operations at the Antitrust Division.

For more details, see Federal Register document number 2025-15382.

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