Government and Industry Interactions in the Development of Clock Technology

Helmut Hellwig

Abstract:	It appears likely that everyone in the time and frequency community can agree on goals to be realized through the expenditure of resources. These goals are the same as found in most fields of technology: lower cost, better performance, increased reliability, small size and lower power. This paper focuses on related aspects in the process of clock and frequency standard development which sees government and industry in a highly interactive role. These interactions include judgments on clock performance, what kind of clock, expenditure of resources, transfer of ideas or hardware concepts from government to industry, and control of production. The author believes that successful clock development and production requires a government/industry relationship which is characterized by long-term continuity, multi-disciplinary team work, focused funding and a separation of reliability and production oriented tasks from performance improvement/ research-type efforts.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 12th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting December 2 - 4, 1980 Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland
Pages:	253 - 274
Cite this article:	Hellwig, Helmut, "Government and Industry Interactions in the Development of Clock Technology," Proceedings of the 12th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting, Greenbelt, Maryland, December 1980, pp. 253-274.
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