Every Halloween we present a familiar horror story: You wake up. Emergency and rescue radios are down. Your location app is offline and planes are grounded worldwide. You attempt to go shopping, but the credit card isn't working. The ATM is down, too. As the day progresses both cell and internet service are lost, stores and restaurants are closed, and you can't even get gas. By the next morning the power is out.

The foundational need to know our location and time is at the heart of position, navigation, and timing (PNT) infrastructure. For the last half century, PNT and GPS (the US Global Positioning System) have been interchangeable; there are 8 billion GPS receivers in the world – one for every person on Earth - and GPS pervades all aspects of our lives: our location on digital maps and ridesharing apps, commercial and airline navigation, the timestamp on ATM, credit card and stock

We have opined on the evolution of space, quantum, and time - from a technology development perspective. As a company that touches all three, it is fun to consider the differences and similarities, and pick out the common threads that connect them.

Mankind has carefully tracked the seasons since the earliest civilizations to help regulate agriculture and all aspects to life.

The Space Race - It has been 80 years since mankind first slipped the surly bonds of Earth at the tail end of World War II, 68 years and 64 years since the first satellite and human in space, respectively, and 56 years since “one small step for man” on the moon. This breakneck pace of achievement had its own Manhattan Project, spurred by a World War and a Cold War.In those early years, space was the domain of governments. The early space race was between enemies that didn’t w

Def.: black box (noun); anything that has mysterious or unknown internal functions or mechanisms

Our relationship to time has always advanced in lockstep with technology. Our ancestors cared about seasons, so created calendars tied to...

In the beginning, there was the photon.Originally "discovered" by Albert Einstein and called lichtquanta, (German for "particle of light")