CCTF capacity building project to improve the quality of UTC(k) and UTC time scales is taking shape
The joint project between the Consultative Committee for Time and Frequency (CCTF) and the Ultrasonic, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control (UFFC) Society, started in 2023. Its goal is to improve the capabilities of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) laboratories, NMIs and the broader Time and Frequency community by sharing the resources available in UTC laboratories as well as developing new tools for the analysis and validation of time and frequency measures.
The CCTF programme is supported by secondees at the BIPM working together with the staff of time department. Bharath Vattikonda, NPLI (India) and Yuko Hanado, formerly NICT (Japan), are working together to develop an interactive tool to check clock data. Future plans include time scale algorithms for averaging clock data. An interactive software tool for the analysis of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) measures in the Common GNSS Generic Time Transfer Standard (CGGTTS) format has already been made available and it is ready for testing.
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Bharath Vattikonda (left) and Yuko Hanado (right).