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Who sets the next timing standard? Schedule 30 Minute Briefing Optical clocks and lattice-scale spacetime measurements are moving from lab to orbit. Advanced Spacetime Dynamics Integration (ASDI) explores how we can turn those capabilities into a timing reference layer that helps keep United States and allied forces coordinated when satellite timing links are denied or degraded. Download ASDI overview Field Operative • ASDI

What is ASDI?

Advanced Spacetime Dynamics Integration (ASDI) is an early stage research and concept development effort. The goal is to design a space based spacetime metrology architecture that measures the structure of spacetime itself at very fine scales and treats those measurements as a primary data product.

Measurement first
We start with what can be measured and tested about spacetime itself, not only about objects moving through it.
Primary data layer
ASDI treats lattice scale spacetime measurements as a foundational data layer, similar to how GPS timing underlies navigation, finance, and communications.
Layered services on top
PNT, sensing, and physics insights are framed as derived services built on that data, making architectures more modular, testable, and resilient.

Why ASDI is timely

Advanced Spacetime Dynamics Integration (ASDI) is an early stage research and concept development effort. 

Fragile PNT infrastructure
Critical infrastructure and operations still depend heavily on a small number of space assets and vulnerable signals.
Degraded and denied environments
Future conflicts and crises will assume GPS quality PNT is not available in many places and times. Architectures have to start from that assumption.
New measurement tools
Advances in clocks, optical systems, and quantum sensing make new classes of measurement architectures realistic for the first time.

Impact focus areas

Advanced Spacetime Dynamics Integration (ASDI) is an early stage research and concept development effort. 

Resilient PNT
Concepts for GPS independent navigation and timing that use spacetime measurements as a primary reference rather than a derivative product.
ISR and sensing
Exploring how lattice scale spacetime measurements might sharpen or complement existing sensing and ISR modalities.
Physics constraints
Using operational architectures as a way to test, constrain, or refine models of spacetime behavior.
Systems and risk
Portfolio and risk perspectives on how such architectures fit into real programs with budgets, adversaries, and political constraints.

Collaboration models

Advanced Spacetime Dynamics Integration (ASDI) is an early stage research and concept development effort. 

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Focused briefing (30 minutes)
A closed group session for program managers, technical leads, and analysts. High level, classification aware, tailored your mission set.
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Exploratory concept sprint
Critical infrastructure and operations still depend heavily on a small number of space assets and vulnerable signals.
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Co authored proposals and studies
Where appropriate, we help shape and write research studies, concept material, and risk framing for priority calls and internal initiatives.
Initial ASDI collaboration slots are intentionally limited to a small number of serious partners.

Who we are

Advanced Spacetime Dynamics Integration (ASDI) is an early stage research and concept development effort.

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John C. “Buck” Field

Information Risk Management
PMI trained project and risk manager with experience architecting large scale financial and networked systems. Focused on portfolio risk, socio technical failure modes, and epistemic guardrails for high stakes programs.
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Dr. Patricia Field (Alvarez)

Neonatology and epidemiology
Physician and researcher with experience in complex systems, early signal detection, and public health data. Brings medical and epidemiological perspectives to resilience and measurement questions.
ASDI also draws on a loose network of external experts and advisors. Formal relationships are established project by project.

How we think about risk

Advanced Spacetime Dynamics Integration (ASDI) is an early stage research and concept development effort.

Evidence first
We design around what can be measured, tested, and potentially falsified, not around buzzwords.
Adversary aware
We assume intelligent, adaptive adversaries who read the same open literature, and sometimes more.
Epistemic humility
Public material is deliberately conservative. Anything that would clearly require classified treatment does not appear here.
Even with the best clocks and sensors, if the architecture and risk framing are wrong, you still lose.

Frequently asked questions

Advanced Spacetime Dynamics Integration (ASDI) is an early stage research and concept development effort. 

01_Is ASDI an operational system or a research program?

ASDI is an early stage research and concept development effort, not a deployed system.

High level architectures, risk framing, and open literature are on the table. Anything that would clearly require classified handling is kept out of public channels and handled through the usual processes.

We are conservative. If there is any doubt about export controls or ITAR, we treat the material as if it were controlled and route it through the proper channels.

Yes, subject to the usual clearances and program rules, but initial contact starts at this open level.

For ASDI we are primarily interested in funded research, studies, and joint proposals that keep the work within appropriate legal and security boundaries.