The goal of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) Chip-Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC) program is to provide warfighters with enhanced radio communications and jam-resistant navigation ...

How some of the world’s most precise clocks missed a very small beat. By Mike Ives and Adeel Hassan Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected ...

Space, military, and aerospace applications represent 41.0% of total demand, underscoring the market’s strategic orientation.

What the Clock: Internet time servers are a critical part of the infrastructure used by companies and organizations that rely on atomic clocks to keep accurate time. A US agency responsible for ...

Here on Earth, it might not matter if your wristwatch runs a few seconds slow. But crucial spacecraft functions need accuracy down to one billionth of a second or less. Navigating with GPS, for ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Atomic clocks have served as the world’s most precise means of ...

A power outage at a key atomic clock facility led to the US official time slowing down by just under five millionths of a second last week, the country’s time watchdog said.A severe windstorm knocked ...

NTP is one of the most interesting and important, but all to forgotten, protocols that makes the internet tick. Accurate ...

In an era when millions of Americans are chained to computers, handcuffed to BlackBerrys and plugged into iPods, something as simple as knowing the current time should be easy. But here’s the snag: ...