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September 3, 2012
GPS Civil Funding

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has told those awaiting their slice of the GPS civil program budget that the funds are on the…

By Dee Ann Divis


August 31, 2012
U.S. Officials Explore Use of the EU’s Galileo Secure Civil Signal

Nominal architecture of a GPS/Galileo PRS receiver The United States and the European Union are talking about how U.S. agencies might use the…

By Dee Ann Divis


August 17, 2012
PNT Advisory Board Seeks Details on Economic Benefits of GPS

To help counter pressures from federal budget cutters and wireless advocates searching for more broadband spectrum, the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing…

By Dee Ann Divis


July 31, 2012
UAVs: Homeland Security Under Pressure to Take a Greater Role in GPS Anti-Spoofing

A congressional committee overseeing activities at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appears poised to push the agency into a more substantive role…

By Dee Ann Divis


July 18, 2012
Can Congress Rescue Itself?

In the 1974 Mel Brooks’ movie, Blazing Saddles, one of the characters — surrounded by his enemies — points a gun at his…

By Dee Ann Divis


July 18, 2012
Congressional ‘Sequestration’ Gambit Looms Over GPS Budget

Members of Congress — who have not finished next year’s appropriations, face half a dozen major tax and program fixes set to expire,…

By Dee Ann Divis


July 17, 2012
Election Politics May Stall Final LightSquared Decision

Tim Farrar, TMF Associates While members of the GPS community are pushing to formally end the threat of signal interference from LightSquared’s proposed…

By Dee Ann Divis


July 16, 2012
Brit Military Visit May Hasten Resolution of GPS Signal Patent Dispute

Peter Luff, UK Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology (Image from Peter Luff’s MP website) The U.S. visit of a high-level official…

By Dee Ann Divis


June 14, 2012
Inside GNSS Columnist Wins Washington D.C. ‘Watchdog’ Journalism Award

Dee Ann Divis, Washington View columnist Dee Ann Divis, Inside GNSS’s Washington correspondent¸ was named the winner of the Society of Professional Journalists…

By Dee Ann Divis


May 27, 2012
IP Rights and Wrongs

As Desi Arnaz often said to Lucille Ball during an “I Love Lucy” episode on TV, “You’ve got some ’splaining to do.” I…

By Dee Ann Divis


May 27, 2012
A European Perspective on Patent Dispute over GPS-Galileo Civil Signal

Return to main Washington View article: "USPTO Nears Approval of Troubling British Patent on New GPS Civil Signal"

By Dee Ann Divis


May 25, 2012
USPTO Nears Approval of Troubling British Patent on New GPS Civil Signal

Download the list of GNSS-related signal patents (PDF)

By Dee Ann Divis


March 29, 2012
LightSquared Lessons Learned

Oh no! Not another learning experience! Bumper sticker wisdom after the fact, but better late than never. As this issue of Inside GNSS…

By Dee Ann Divis


March 29, 2012
LightSquared Fallout May Prompt Push for GPS Receiver Standards

The firefight between LightSquared and the GPS community has sparked regulatory brush fires around Washington with the Federal Communications Commission  (FCC), Congress, a…

By Dee Ann Divis


January 19, 2012
GPS – The DoD’s Profit Center

Why Washington continues to talk about deficits while the country is talking about jobs and foreclosures is kind of a mystery, but let’s…

By Dee Ann Divis


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