Story by Jonathan Holloway | Command, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography | 04.06.2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. ── Dr. Dennis McCarthy─former Director of the Directorate of Time at the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) and GPS pioneer─was inducted into Naval Oceanography Hall of Fame in ceremony hosted by USNO, April 6, 2023. Considering McCarthy’s career as UNSO’s former Director of the Directorate of Time from 1996 to 2005 and a list of stellar, professional feats; his......
Story by Geoffrey Chester | Naval Observatory | 05.17.2022
Washington, DC, 2022 May 17 Twenty international military attaches toured the U.S. Naval Observatory's Washington, DC campus....
Courtesy Story | Command, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography | 10.15.2021
In October 1971, an astronomer from the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) and a physicist from the Washington University in St. Louis performed a novel experiment to verify effects predicted by Albert Einstein’s Special and General Theories of Relativity. By flying four cesium-beam atomic clocks around the world twice, once in an eastward and once in a westward direction, they hoped to measure......
Story by Matthew Stinson | Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Washington | 08.26.2020
Construction site excavation for the new Master Time Clocks and Operations Facility at the United States Naval Observatory, led by Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Washington, has unearthed structures and artifacts dating back to the nineteenth century. The structures revealed include the foundations of the mansion home of the previous property owners, the Barber family, a......
