And Symmetricom/Timing Solutions has as some of its US customers, our premier Nuclear Weapons Design folks like Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Labs.

Those Nuclear Timing Widgets had to receive 70+ ‘exceptions’ during the engineer phase to be ‘certified’… Arms Control Wonk had an article awhile back pondering whether they’ll even work…! Our tax payer dollars hard at work… again…!

L. Fletcher Prouty wrote The Secret Team in the 1970’s outlining just this scenario. Reading it will preclude doing repetitive spadework. The nuggets are there to be used.

Sort of like cutting out the middle man.

I might as well throw my 2 cents worth about Symmetricom/Timing Solutions in the mix too. They, of course, make highly accurate timing widgets.

Based on both reading their site info and some Google searchs (based on a suspicion of mine), Symmetricom/Timing Solutions widgets are probably involved in such things as:

GPS Target Designator Widgets – When your ground forces need the utmost in GPS accuracy to target the enemy, portable target designation widgets from Symmetricom/Timing Solutions help guide your GPS munitions to exactly the right spot.

And most certainly involved in stuff like:

Nuclear Weapons Trigger Timing Widgets – When you need the utmost in timing accuracy to trigger the most bang for the nuclear weapon buck, Symmetricom/Timing Solutions offers nuclear weapon trigger timing widget solutions to maximize fission effects.

The US Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), Department of Commerce fined Symmetricom/Timing Solutions in 2004 for illegally shipping some of these Nuclear Weapons Trigger Timing Widgets abroad. See this link for the coverup details.

And Symmetricom/Timing Solutions has as some of its US customers, our premier Nuclear Weapons Design folks like Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Labs.

And I wonder if any of their products end up in hands of third-parties for counter-offensive uses.

Can’t find any donor info on the EVP, whose background is HP and Hughes, so no obvious party affiliation.

Fill us in when you can, will be dying of curiosity.

They appear to be a reputable maker of high-precision timing devices. This is a hugely important and incredibly boring foundational technology for most everything electronic these days. At the risk of oversimplifying things, I’d say they are to the defense, research, satellite, and electronics industry what Radio Shack is to the garage hobbyist.