US agency wants to develop wearable atomic clocks
An agency of the US Department of Defense is launching an ambitious program aimed at developing an even more precise atomic clock.
Global positioning systems (GPS) are essential for the military in precision warfare, but they come with a problem: GPS can be jammed by military adversaries. That is why the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency of the US Department of Defense, has announced the “Robust Optical Clock Network” (ROCkN) program, which aims to develop optical atomic clocks …
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