The Master Clock Building at USNO Infrastructure

Warren F. Walls

Abstract:	The U.S. Naval Observatory recently completed a new facility to house its rubidium fountains as well as hydrogen masers, cesium-beam-tube clocks, and future clocks. The design and performance of the building itself is key to providing a good environment to house the clocks. Additionally, the measurement, dissemination, and future capabilities of the infrastructure electronics are critical to achieving mission goals and supporting requirements into the future. This paper reviews some of the building design choices and then describes the ac power, dc power, telemetry, and measurement system configurations.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 40th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting December 1 - 4, 2008 Hyatt Regency Reston Town Center Reston, Virginia
Pages:	17 - 28
Cite this article:	Walls, Warren F., "The Master Clock Building at USNO Infrastructure," Proceedings of the 40th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting, Reston, Virginia, December 2008, pp. 17-28.
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