Dee Ann Divis has covered GNSS and the aerospace industry since the early 1990s, writing for GPS World, Geo Info Systems, Jane’s International Defense Review, the Los Angeles Times, AeroSpace Daily, and other publications. Read More
She was the science and technology editor at United Press International for five years, leaving for a year to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow.
Upon returning to D.C. she joined the staff of the Washington Examiner, a start-up newspaper that is now the second largest daily paper in Washington. She was the paper's assistant managing editor for news until 2013.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai. Photo source: Wikimedia Commons. The U.S. Congress is prepared to deliver the coup de grace to a new rule…
By Dee Ann Divis
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons. GPS receiver manufacturers have until March 3 to apply for a rare opportunity to test their equipment against realistic…
By Dee Ann Divis
The Federal Communications Commission is being asked to choose between the immediate benefits of officially improving U.S. satellite navigation receivers and the possibility…
By Dee Ann Divis
Washington has seen a lot of transitions, so even amidst political controversy it’s generally business as usual. For the GPS community that business,…
By Dee Ann Divis
Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James. (Photo source: DoD). Though the schedule is still uncertain, progress is being made on completing the new…
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Yesterday (December 23, 2016) President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2017, a $619-billion bill with a number…
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Government watchdogs said in a new report that schedule slippages in the new GPS ground system — which in October had another four…
By Dee Ann Divis
American Election 2016 — now that was something, wasn’t it? A national unpopularity contest. Sort of Commedia dell’arte meets Monty Python, directed by…
By Dee Ann Divis
With the Republican Party now entirely in charge of Washington’s prime policy real estate the neighborhood is going to change. The current residents…
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Congress is back in Washington with a December 9 deadline to pass the 2017 Fiscal Year (FY17) federal budget and avoid a government…
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Combined GPS + Galileo constellation. Image source: Nottingham Scientific Ltd., UK Experts working on standards for airborne equipment using GPS, Galileo, and a…
By Dee Ann Divis
Federal aviation officials have asked the RTCA, Inc., standards organization to comment on a plan designed to help prevent a proposed wireless broadband…
By Dee Ann Divis
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DoT) has released the first data from its study of power levels for services seeking to use spectrum…
By Dee Ann Divis
Air Force Space Commander Gen. John Hyten The Department of Defense (DoD) is less than three weeks away from a decision on whether…
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A newly posted report shows the comments federal researchers received from a dozen organizations and satellite navigation experts as they put together a…
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