Common use of Key results and conclusions Clause in Contracts

Key results and conclusions. The objective of demonstrating, both by simulation and experimentally, methods for incorporating optical clocks into the UTC(k) timescales maintained by national timing laboratories was thus successfully achieved. A first direct comparison was carried out between two prototype optically steered timescales, each of which used data from two optical clocks operating with high uptimes. The offset between these two prototype timescales remained smaller than the offset between the corresponding operational UTC(k) timescales over the duration of the test.