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“If we’re successful, these optical clocks would provide a 100x increase in precision, or decrease in timing error, over existing microwave atomic clocks, and demonstrate improved holdover of nanosecond timing precision from a few hours to a month. However, the laboratory models are very complex to operate, requiring the transition “to small and robust versions that can operate outside the lab,” program manager at the DARPA Defense Sciences Office, Tatjana Curcic said. The program aims to replicate the agency’s multi-year work in the field, which has produced laboratory models of far more accurate optical atomic clocks - with a longer period of accuracy - than current atomic clocks. The DARPA-sponsored four-year Robust Optical Clock Network program seeks to develop an optical atomic clock that uses light instead of the microwave to measure the change. Optical Atomic ClockĪ conventional atomic clock uses a microwave beam to measure the frequency of change in an atom’s energy state. The new clock will make the system less reliant on GPS, which is vulnerable to spoofing and jamming in contested environments. The agency aims to develop an alternative to the present GPS satellite-based atomic clock that provides “nanosecond (one billionth of a second) timing accuracy” for platforms such as “missiles, sensors, aircraft, ships, and artillery.” The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is bidding to develop a 100 times more accurate atomic clock for a range of air, land, and sea platforms.
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