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.
Most folks look to a new year as an opportunity for fresh starts and new projects. For the GPS community, however, the October…
By Dee Ann Divis
The U.S. stance on satellite navigation has long supported international cooperation and a degree of interoperability. In 2010 the Obama administration even adopted…
By Dee Ann Divis
Dee Ann Divis, an Inside GNSS contributing editor who writes the magazine’s Washington View column, continues to garner journalistic awards. On June 9…
By Dee Ann Divis
After three years in Chapter 11, the company whose planned wireless broadband system threatened to overload GPS receivers across the United States is…
By Dee Ann Divis
The Federal Register will publish on Monday (March 23, 2015) a solicitation for public comment regarding “potential plans” by the U.S. government to…
By Dee Ann Divis
Prof. David Last The U.S. government appears to be closing in on a decision about whether to revive plans for an enhanced Loran…
By Dee Ann Divis
These days getting the United States, Russia, China, and Europe to agree on a common policy seems to be an increasingly rare event….
By Dee Ann Divis
No reality show contestant ever neared the finish line without the producers serving up another challenge. And so it is for would-be multi-GNSS…
By Dee Ann Divis
GPS Space Service Volume (SSV) Requirements/Performance Parameters New space missions such as the robotic repair and recovery of damaged or errant communication satellites…
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Editor’s Note: An exclusive interview with Gen. Hyten is available here with more details. Details are emerging about another restructuring of the contract…
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Here’s the coolest “technology-meets-ingenuity-meets-sustainable-economics” story that I’ve heard in a long time: the International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 (ISEE-3) Reboot Project, a crowd-funded rescue mission…
By Dee Ann Divis
Washington, D.C., has a peculiarity of seasons. While most of the world marks the shifts between winter and spring, summer and autumn, the…
By Dee Ann Divis
A shift in the Air Force’s acquisition plan should shave a year off the time needed to finish development of new M-code–equipped receivers…
By Dee Ann Divis
With the optimism of college-bound seniors touring the Ivy League, GPS managers have been weighing options to dramatically change the GPS constellation. Now,…
By Dee Ann Divis
Trying to revive a years-dead federal program is usually the kind of hopeless task that even Sisyphus wouldn’t touch. But determined supporters of…
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