Official and highly precise timekeeping services ( clocks ) are provided by two federal agencies: the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) ( an agency of the Department of Commerce ); and its military counterpart, the United States Naval Observatory ( USNO ).

The USNO returned that telescope to Washington following the completion of its project in 1974.

In 2012 NOFS, with support from USNO, CNMOC and the Chief of Naval Operations ' Oceanographer staff, began developing funding and programming plans in order to install the array.

USNO also has an " Alternate Master Clock " site in Colorado Springs, CO which, with the " Master Clock ", provides precise time to the GPS satellite constellation run by the U. S. Air Force ; and it performs radio VLBI-based positions of quasars with numerous global collaborators, in order to produce Earth Orientation parameters.

In Sabah, the Alliance and then National Front controlled the state government through the United Sabah National Organization ( USNO ), which strongly backed UMNO's pro-Malay and pro-Islam policies.

The USNO Chief Minister, Mustapha Harun, was also known for favouring political patronage as a means of allocating valuable timber contracts, and living an extravagant lifestyle, being ferried to his A $ 1 million Queensland home by jets provided with Sabahan public funds.

The United States Naval Observatory ( USNO ) is one of the oldest scientific agencies in the United States, with a primary mission to produce Positioning, Navigation, and Timing ( PNT ) for the U. S. Navy and the U. S. Department of Defense.

Following several years of work, Louis Essen from the National Physical Laboratory ( Teddington, England ) and William Markowitz from the United States Naval Observatory ( USNO ) determined the relationship between the hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium atom and the ephemeris second.

The Naval Observatory is currently working on B2 and C variants of the USNO catalog series.

On September 20, 1894, the NAO became a " branch " of USNO, however it remained autonomous for several years after this.

Unfortunately, light pollution forced USNO to think of other more viable locations to continue work, and so began a search.

The voice of actor Fred Covington ( 1928 – 1993 ) has been announcing the USNO time since 1978.

He attended Yale University on a scholarship sponsored by the U. S. Naval Observatory ( USNO ),

In 1875 Hall was given responsibility for the USNO 26-inch ( 66-cm ) telescope, the largest refracting telescope in the world at the time.

As early as 1904, the United States Naval Observatory ( USNO ) was broadcasting time signals from the city of Boston as an aid to navigation.

However, it failed to win any Parliamentary or State Assembly seats, with USNO holding onto the state government.

H. P. Tuttle, 1888 ( USNO )

Harrington worked at the USNO.

* A astrograph was used by the USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog ( UCAC ) project from 1998 to 2001.

The UN continues to maintain a peace building mission in Bangui.

However, according to recent studies, California chaparral is extraordinarily resilient to very long periods without fire and continues to maintain productive growth throughout pre-fire conditions.

However, the Communist Party of Albania will not collaborate with any group of the National Front that continues to maintain contacts with the fascist invaders.

Honduras ( as of about year 2000 ) continues to maintain stable macroeconomic policies.

The government continues its efforts to raise new sovereign debt in local and international financial markets in order to meet its U. S. dollar debt obligations, to mop up liquidity to maintain the exchange rate and to help fund the current budget deficit.

Russia continues to maintain military presence in the Transnistrian region of Moldova, despite previous agreements with Moldova and within OSCE and CAF to withdraw its troops and ammunition.

Neither Mac OS X nor FreeBSD maintain the microkernel structure pioneered in Mach, although Mac OS X continues to offer microkernel inter-process communication and control primitives for use directly by applications.

The OSGi Alliance ( formerly known as the Open Services Gateway initiative, now an obsolete name ) is an open standards organization founded in March 1999 that originally specified and continues to maintain the OSGi standard.

A good example of this is when a body which is not quite an elastic solid ( i. e. an inelastic solid ) does not maintain a constant deformation under constant stress, but rather continues to deform with time – or " creeps " under the same stress at constant temperature.

Symbolics refers to two companies: now-defunct computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc., and a privately held company that acquired the assets of the former company and continues to sell and maintain the Open Genera Lisp system and the Macsyma computer algebra system.

Slapstick continues to maintain a presence in modern comedy that draws upon its lineage, running in film from Buster Keaton and Louis de Funès to Mel Brooks to the Jackass movies to the Farrelly Brothers, and in live performance from Weber & Fields to Jackie Gleason to Rowan Atkinson.

He continues to maintain friendships with many of his former students: Gerald Beauregard, Martin McKinney, Ray Guillette, John Puterbaugh, Ted Coffey, Anu Kirk, Yuri Spitsyn, Ted Apel, Kojiro Umezaki, Steve Berkley, Vanderlei Lucentini, Courtney Kennedy, Ileana Perez, Kevin Parks, Colby Leider, Matthew B. Smith, Leslie Stone, Tae Hong Park, Sean Peuquet, Andrew Tomasulo, Paul Botelho the Triple OG, Iroro Orife, Bruno Ruviaro, Masaki Kubo, Will Haslett, Irina Escalante Chernova, Michael Chinen, Kristina Wolfe, Aki Onda, Bill Brunson and Russell Pinkston.

It continues to maintain a distinct culture.

Though the four combined tribes sharing the Colorado River Indian Reservation function today as one geo-political unit, the federally recognized Colorado River Indian Tribes, each continues to maintain and observe its individual traditions, distinct religions, and culturally unique identities.

The waqf continues to control and maintain most of the site.

After the war it became the voice of the upper middle class, and continues to maintain a conservative position.

The Choir continues to maintain an active online presence with their own website and Facebook page.

Verizon continues to use the Bell logo on its payphones ( including former GTE payphones ), hard hats, trucks, and buildings likely intending to display continued use in order to maintain the company's trademark rights.

Among the IUCN key products and services, it has produced and continues to maintain and monitor:

The population continues to maintain a traditional lifestyle, trapping, hunting, and fishing.

Catalina continues to experience increasing population growth, while attempting to maintain its rural character.

From its ties to the transportation industry, the City of Brinkley continues to maintain a position at the center of major transportation arteries.

Knox College continues to maintain and use Old Main to this day.

34th Street, the road leading to the old bridge remains under maintenance of the state from the old bridge ramp to Court Street, formerly U. S. Route 60 until 1987, and the state continues to maintain it to this day but it is unsigned as a state highway.