Chief Scientist for Symmetricom Receives Distinguished Precise Time
and Time Interval (PTTI) Award
Dr. Michael Garvey Receives 2007 Distinguished PTTI Service Award for
Outstanding Contributions to Precise Time and Time Interval Systems
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) January 9, 2008 --
Symmetricom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYMM), a worldwide leader in precise
time and frequency technologies that accelerate the deployment and
enable the management of next
generation networks, today announced that Dr. Michael Garvey, chief
scientist with Symmetricom in Beverly, Massachusetts, was the 2007
recipient of the Distinguished PTTI Service Award. The award was
presented at the Thirty-Ninth Annual Precise Time and Time Interval
(PTTI) Systems and Applications Meeting held Monday, November 26 to
Thursday, November 29, 2007 in Long Beach, California. The award
recognizes outstanding contributions related to the management of PTTI
systems.
“This award is open not only to those who
excel in technology but also to those who make it usable and available,”
commented Dr. Joe White, chairman of the PTTI Executive Committee. “Excelling
in both areas, Dr. Garvey was responsible for the development of the cesium
clocks flown in GPS blocks I, II and IIA. It was these clocks that
helped make the early GPS satellites a success.”
The Distinguished PTTI Service Award recognizes an individual for
providing exceptional leadership and demonstrating ability and ingenuity
in the development or application of PTTI over a number of years or the
development of a significant PTTI system.
“The PTTI is the leading strategic systems and
applications meeting in precise time,”
commented Dr. Michael Garvey, chief scientist for Symmetricom in
Beverly. “It is an honor to be recognized by
my colleagues for contributions to PTTI systems. I have found the work
both challenging and rewarding.”
Throughout his 30-year career, Dr. Garvey has been involved in the
design of atomic frequency standards and clocks. In 1979, he joined
Frequency and Time Systems, Inc. (FTS) where he developed cesium
beam atomic clocks
for the first Global
Positioning System (GPS) satellites. In 1999, Dr. Garvey led the
acquisition of Sigma Tau Standards Corporation, the only U.S.
manufacturer of active hydrogen masers. FTS was acquired by Symmetricom
in 2002. At Symmetricom, Dr. Garvey has overall responsibility for the
research and development of precision clocks and frequency standards.
Dr. Garvey is an active member of the U.S. Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency
Control (UFFC) Society, serving as the president-elect for the term
beginning in 2010. Since 1998, he has served as a member of the
Scientific Program Committee of the European Frequency and Time Forum
(EFTF). He also serves on the National Research Council Review Panel for
Physics at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. Dr.
Garvey was the recipient of the 2002 IEEE UFFC Society's C.B. Sawyer
Award. He holds a bachelor’s degree in
physics from Davidson College and a doctorate in physics from Duke
University.
For more information on Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI), visit: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ptti.html.
About Symmetricom, Inc.
As a worldwide leader in precise time and frequency products and
services, Symmetricom provides “Perfect Timing”
to customers around the world. Since 1985, the company’s
solutions have helped define the world’s time
and frequency standards, delivering precision, reliability and
efficiency to wireline and wireless networks, instrumentation and
testing applications and network time management. Deployed in more than
90 countries, the company’s synchronization
solutions include primary reference sources, building integrated timing
supplies (BITS), GPS
timing receivers, time
and frequency distribution systems, network
time servers and ruggedized oscillators. Symmetricom also
incorporates technologies including Universal Timing Interface (UTI),
Network Time Protocol (NTP),
Precision Time Protocol (IEEE 1588), and others supporting the world’s
migration to Next Generation Networks (NGN). Symmetricom is based in San
Jose, Calif., with offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.symmetricom.com.
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