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Datum Helps Keep Europe In Time
Datum Timing, Test & Measurement (TT&M), a division of Datum Inc. located in Beverly, Mass., has recently been awarded three separate contracts to European national laboratories for Active Hydrogen MASERs valued at more than $1 million. The European national laboratories are part of a group of institutions that generate master time scales used for international time keeping. These recent awards add to an already growing demand for Datum's Hydrogen MASER clock technology. Primary applications include international timekeeping, defense, search and rescue, airline and ground navigation, metrology, radio astronomy, and precision event tracking. These applications require the highest degree of synchronization accuracy, provided only by Hydrogen MASER technology. "The increased demand for Datum's Hydrogen MASERs in Europe can be attributed to 'our expertise in atomic clock technology," said Datum Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Erik Van der Kaay. "Our strong heritage in Cesium and Rubidium technology offers a real comfort level to customers when they purchase such a critical piece of hardware." Advances in atomic clock design and manufacturing techniques continue to fuel worldwide demand for precision references. As a result, over the past 12 months, Datum-TT&M has seen the demand for its Hydrogen MASERs substantially increase both domestically and internationally. The company foresees this trend continuing through 2002 and will expand production capacity to meet the expanded business volume. Datum Timing, Test & Measurement manufactures a complete range of time and frequency technologies, from quartz crystal oscillators to Active Hydrogen MASERs, and is the largest volume manufacturer of cesium atomic clocks in the world. Datum TT&M has supplied the majority of cesium clocks used within the United States' Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) system, the European Space Agency's (ESA) European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System (EGNOS), and the Japanese MSAS systems. Related Links Datum Inc SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express 
New Atomic Clock Could Be 1,000 Times Better Than Today's Best
Gaithersburg - July 16, 2001Researchers at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated a new kind of atomic clock that has the potential to be up to 1,000 times more accurate than today's best clock. They report the findings in Friday's issue of Science Express, an online publication of Science Magazine.
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