Brooks Shera said the following on 09/19/2006 06:48 PM: > The excerpt below from GPS World refers to a Chip-scale atomic clock being > developed by DARPA. > > Does anyone know what technology they might be using for such a clock? > > "Atomic Clock Synchronization > The U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego is > incorporating a chip-scale atomic clock into a new GPS receiver design, the > Navigation Nugget. read more»The Nugget fuses a GPS software-defined receiver > with an inertial measurement unit (IMU), synchronized by an onboard atomic > clock, to create a positioning, navigation, and timing-sensor suite capable > of withstanding impaired and threatened GPS environments. The chip-scale > atomic clock is being developed by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. > Adding an atomic clock to the GPS/IMU combination will help ground forces in > canopy or jammed environments and improve vertical accuracy. A large-scale > prototype Navigation Nugget is expected to be field tested in one year. Space > and Naval Warfare Systems Center, www.spawar.navy.mil/sandiego/. "
There was a tiny Rb standard publicized a while ago. I wonder if this is it? John _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
