Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?

Abstract

It describes the importance of timing to North American power grid operations. It focuses specifically on timing provided by GPS, and covers four topics in relation to the power grid: Timing Dependency; Threats to Timing; Timing Threat Mitigation Measures; and Proposed Goals for Resilient Timing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 15, 2013
Accession Number
AD1172259

Entities

People

  • Michael L. Cohen

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Antispoofing
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Best Practices
  • Clocks
  • Continuous Waves
  • Corporations
  • Crystal Oscillators
  • Electrical Grids
  • Frequency
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Load Monitoring
  • Magnetic Storms
  • Models
  • Navigation
  • Power Supplies
  • Radio Frequency Interference
  • Reliability
  • Space Weather
  • Spoofing
  • Time Intervals
  • Vulnerability

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Technology.

Technology Areas

  • Space