David Mitlyng

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 transactions...

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.