Category: Posts
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PublicNTP, Inc. July Board Meeting
Public Time’s board members once again met up to talk about the company’s accomplishments since our meeting last November, and make sure we all agreed on the company’s vision for the future. For this meeting, we bravely took on the challenge of attempting a meeting in Georgetown (those who know the area will get that…
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GPS Generation Three Has Launched!
November 26th, 2018 saw NASA land the Mars InSight rover—an achievement that required a thousand different, precise steps to all happen perfectly in order to succeed. A month later, on December 23rd, SpaceX successfully launched the Air Force’s first third generation GPS satellite, also known as “GPS IIIA-01” on top of a Falcon 9 rocket.…
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F2F in Mountain Time!
PublicNTP, like many companies, is geographically distributed; the company’s four board members live in four different states. Terry lives out around D.C. but he and I met in Salt Lake after his family moved here from Maine in 1994. Kind of startling to realize he and I have known each other for a quarter of…
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Touching Bases With The Team (African Expansion and More!)
African Expansion: Project Ikenga PublicNTP has been working to improve our footprint in Africa since before the company was legally incorporated in the state of Virginia. The company has dubbed the search for improved company presence in Africa Project Ikenga, named after an African god of time. The team has found Africa a challenging place to…
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Public Time’s Open Architecture Stratum One – Part Five: Future Investigations
In this final entry in the series about our open architecture stratum one server, we call out some of the future investigations we noted that may be worth looking into during the exploration so far. Multi-Constellation Multi-Frequency Indoor Reception Lowering Price There are many different avenues to improve our first iteration on this platform; these…