NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS
AND TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION
SERVICE
FISCAL YEAR 2018
BUDGET SUBMISSION TO CONGRESS
http://www.osec.doc.gov/bmi/budget/FY18CBJ/FY%202018%20NIST-NTIS%20Cong%20Budget%20Request%20-%20508%20Compliant%20-%20FINAL.pdf
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Time and Fundamental Measu
On 2018-08-10 05:55 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote:
>From what I understand the same "threat" occurred in 2017 with the FY18
budget. In the end, the budget ended up greater even than what was asked. So no cuts were
made. Who knows what will happen this time. Still, it's always a concern; for the staff,
In message , "Tom Van Baak" writes:
So is it possible to divine if this targets the HF or VLF or both ?
I would imagine that shutting VLF would leave a lot of consumer
electronics stranded.
On the other hand, I'm not sure I see much point in the HF service...
--
Poul-Henning Kamp
Well, I can't match Tom's poetry but I note that the deregulation of
power-line-time makes the WWV-series even more critical. So far, though, I
haven't seen super-large changes in the timing of the 60 Hz signals coming into
the USNO. Seems like there was a net 30 second drop in June.
-Ori
Hi Steve,
>From what I understand the same "threat" occurred in 2017 with the FY18
>budget. In the end, the budget ended up greater even than what was asked. So
>no cuts were made. Who knows what will happen this time. Still, it's always a
>concern; for the staff, for the time service, for the
This crossing over from time-nuts list, but it may mean that
listening to leap seconds will become a thing of the past.
If I understand this summary of the NIST budget request then
radio stations WWV, and WWVH are set to be shut down.
https://www.nist.gov/director/fy-2019-presidential-budget-reque
