Time running out on atomic-clock station in Fort Collins

FORT COLLINS — The National Institute for Standards & Technology based in Boulder may close its time-signal radio station in Fort Collins that broadcasts time and frequency information from its atomic clock in Boulder as part of agency-wide  proposed budget cuts.

President Trump’s fiscal year 2019 budget request for NIST proposes to cut the agency’s budget from its fiscal year 2017 enacted level of $954 million to $629 million, a 34 percent decrease.

The cuts, as proposed by NIST, would include trimming its workforce nationwide by 325 jobs, leaving 1,932 people with jobs. How many…