A timing error of just a few billionths of a second can translate to positioning being off by a meter or more. High-tech missiles, sensors, aircraft, ships, and artillery all rely on atomic clocks on GPS satellites for nanosecond timing accuracy. Synchronizing time in modern warfare – down to billionths and trillionths of a second – is critical for mission success. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced the Robust Optical Clock Network (ROCkN) program, which aims to create optical atomic clocks with low size, weight, and power (SWaP) that yield timing accuracy and holdover better than GPS atomic clocks and can be used outside a laboratory. We used to have one but the wheel came off.The U.S. If you want any money you'll need to be packing a few "micromachined ion traps", or alternatively a miniaturised Stern-Gerlach experimental apparatus mounted inside a Ramsey interrogation cavity. Ability to keep 1-10 ns time accuracy over days to a few microseconds over a year will allow new capabilities for handheld or ground-based sensors, GPS/GPS-denied navigation, and spread spectrum and data-packet communications.ĭownload the whole solicitation from DARPA here. A more perfect microsystem developed for navigation, time keeping, and communications would include a near-perfect clock with high accuracy and stability. This is where a suitably microscopic clock mounted inside the fluttering bug-bug's head comes in handy, as it would be a building block towards equipping the moth-drone with an ultraminiaturised in-bonce satnav. One of the key snags in handling an everyday cyborg zombie slave is that of knowing where the hell it is - moths not being navigationally gifted - and also communicating with it. (There has, however, been related research in Belgium in which sexy robo-provocateur infiltrators were able to influence large groups of unsuspecting cockroach dupes into acting against their own best interests.)
Research thus far has mainly focused on chipping-up moths for use as covert surveillance platforms, or perhaps to deliver devastating strikes against al-Qaeda linen cupboards. The realization of cyborgs with most of the machine component inside the. program is aimed to develop technology that provides more control over insect locomotion, just as saddles and horseshoes are needed for horse locomotion control. For example we have used horses and elephants. "Animal world has provided mankind with locomotion over millennia. Tellingly, the CSAC nanoclock programme is being kicked off by DARPA's top MEMS boffin Dr Amit Lal, who says: DARPA's MEMS effort is perhaps most famous for its known aspirations to borg up live creatures, implanting controlling machine cores into them and using the hapless brainchip-zombified slaves for various purposes - spying and so on. MEMS stands for Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems, and NEMS is the nano version. aim is to leverage Chip-Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC) technology and other atom ensemble manipulation technology in general in developing MEMS/NEMS.
God knows what a "metrology instrument" is, but the rest of that stuff sounds pretty impressive.
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