Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
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.
A new White House executive order gives the federal government a year to develop and test profiles for the responsible use of space-based…
By Dee Ann Divis
Americans by the millions are being tracked through their cell phones, using location data sold both legally and, apparently, illegally. The buyers-users range…
By Dee Ann Divis
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) told two U.S. Senators in January that his agency could not complete a decision on…
By Dee Ann Divis
Hours before an impending government shutdown, the President signed both the defense appropriations and authorization bills on December 20. The bills funded nearly…
By Dee Ann Divis
The long-running fight between the GPS community and Ligado Networks intensified in the final months of 2019, fueled by a draft regulatory order,…
By Dee Ann Divis
Despite a surge of activity at the end of the year, the FCC has not yet ruled on a request by Ligado Networks…
By Dee Ann Divis
Reducing the number of GPS receivers installed or carried while tapping multiple PNT sources. Prototyping and beta testing are techniques closely associated with…
By Dee Ann Divis
The previously-troubled program to build a new GPS ground control system has stayed on track for the last two and a half years…
By Dee Ann Divis
In a letter made public late Friday, the point person for all federal agency use of frequencies told commercial spectrum regulators his agency…
By Dee Ann Divis
Professor David Last described his life in crime during the Institute of Navigation’s GNSS+ 2012 conference. He was late coming to that line…
By Dee Ann Divis
The Defense Department urged spectrum regulators this week to reject a proposal by Virginia-based Ligado Networks to build a wireless terrestrial communication system…
By Dee Ann Divis
The Department of Transportation (DOT) selected 11 firms to demonstrate technologies that could be used to back up the services provided by GPS…
By Dee Ann Divis
The grapevine was abuzz on Halloween with chatter that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) might soon act on a long-pending request from Ligado…
By Dee Ann Divis
The U.S. Army is reaching out to industry for the advanced inertial measurement unit (IMU) and timing technology it needs to support warfighters…
By Dee Ann Divis
The Army is in the midst of testing new assured position, navigation and timing equipment (A-PNT) as it searches for more ways to…
By Dee Ann Divis
