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The sporadic simple group \(F_{22}\) has order \(2^{17}.3^9.5^2.7.11.13\) and it is known that its automorphism group \(\overline{F_{22}}\) is of the form \(\overline{F_{22}}=F_{22}:\langle e\rangle\) where \(e\) is an element of order \(2\). The group \(\overline{F_{22}}\) has three conjugacy classes of elements of order \(2\) lying outside \(F_{22}\) and using the notations used in the Atlas of Finite Groups they are denoted by \(2D\), \(2E\) and \(2F\). If \(\theta\) belongs to the class \(2E\), then \(C^{(\theta)}_{F_{22}}\cong 2^6:O^-_6(2)\) where \(2^6\) is an elementary Abelian \(2\)-group and \(O^-_6(2)\) denotes one of the orthogonal groups in dimension \(6\) over \(\text{GF}(2)\). The paper under review aims to calculate the complete complex character table of the group \(2^6:O^-_6(2)\) using the so-called Clifford-Fischer method. Upon the natural action of the group \(O^-_6(2)\) on \(2^6\) there are 3 orbits of lengths 1, 27 and 36 and under the action of \(O^-_6(2)\) on the set of complex irreducible characters of \(2^6\) the inertia factor groups are \(O^-_6(2)\), \(2^4:S_5\) and \(2\times S_6\). Now using the character tables of the above groups and the Clifford-Fischer matrices for each class representative in \(O^-_6(2)\), the authors are able to find the complex character table of the group \(2^6:O^-_6(2)\).