[time-nuts] NIST

[Mitch Buchman]

And Loran was defunded, with the towers dismantled (
http://www.loran-history.info/port_clarence/DSC_51151.jpg
http://www.loran-history.info/port_clarence/port_clarence.htm) to save $36M
a year, only to realize that we really needed a backup to GPS. The restart
costs - - measured in $B. It is sad enough to decommission these systems,
but it is even harder to se them demolished.


On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 11:00 AM Mark Whittington <markwhi at gmail.com> wrote:

> It'd be nice if CSU or some other .edu / .org can pick up the hardware and
> licenses and keep it running.
>
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 6:58 AM, Rob Seastrom <rs at seastrom.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Looks like WWV, WWVB, and WWVH are endangered species.  :(
>>
>> -r
>>
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> *From: *"Robert LaJeunesse" <lajeunesse at mail.com>
>> *Subject: **Re: [time-nuts] NIST*
>> *Date: *August 10, 2018 at 3:45:20 PM EDT
>> *To: *time-nuts at lists.febo.com
>> *Reply-To: *Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <
>> time-nuts at lists.febo.com>
>>
>> I'd say it does get more detailed, with the $49M in cuts described
>> generally in groups here:
>>
>>
>> https://www.nist.gov/director/fy-2019-presidential-budget-request-summary/fundamental-measurement-quantum-science-and
>>
>> One item: "-$6.3 million supporting fundamental measurement
>> dissemination, including the shutdown of NIST radio stations in Colorado
>> and Hawaii"
>>
>> Looks like some of your friends might be looking for work. Not good.
>>
>> Bob L.
>>
>>
>> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2018 at 3:11 PM
>> From: "Magnus Danielson" <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org>
>> To: time-nuts at lists.febo.com
>> Cc: magnus at rubidium.se
>> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] NIST
>>
>> Bert,
>>
>> The closes I come is this, burried in the line of Funamental Measurements:
>>
>> https://www.nist.gov/fy-2019-presidential-budget-request-summary/budget-tables
>>
>> It doesn't get more detailed than that.
>>
>> The T&F work is relatively small group in the big NIST.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Magnus
>>
>> On 08/10/2018 08:29 PM, ew via time-nuts wrote:
>>
>>
>> NIST total budget for 2017 was close to 965 Million, I was curios trying
>> to find out what the Time and Frequency Division  portion was. No Luck.
>> Does any one know?Thanks   Bert Kehren
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