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Chief Scientist for Symmetricom Gets Distinguished Precise Time and
Time Interval Award
(Wireless News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
Symmetricom, a provider of precise time and frequency technologies that
accelerate the deployment and enable the management of next generation
networks, 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, 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, said 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, said 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 Corp.,
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.
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