This opportunity funds teams to develop a battery-powered chip-scale atomic clock that matches or exceeds current commercial performance with a selling price goal under $300 per unit. The project targets long-holdover clocks with low size, weight, and power for military applications in GPS-denied environments, leveraging advances in MEMS, photonics, and atomic physics.
Eligible applicants are for-profit firms or consortia led by for-profit firms. The opportunity is restricted to these entities in accordance with 32 CFR 37.210.
