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.
The old quip about limitations refers to cramming 10 pounds of stuff into a five-pound sack. Congressional lawmakers must be wishing for something…
By Dee Ann Divis
The U. S. Air Force is weighing shortening the design life of the GPS satellites it buys after it finishes filling out the…
By Dee Ann Divis
The development cost for the new GPS ground system has jumped to $6 billion and the schedule has slipped another nine months due…
By Dee Ann Divis
Federal budgeteers have made clear their support for satellite navigation though problems with military space programs in general, and GPS programs in particular,…
By Dee Ann Divis
The U.S. Air Force will hold a full and open competition for the next GPS III contract and is focused on choosing a…
By Dee Ann Divis
Scott Pace, a grand master of space policy with particular expertise in satellite navigation, has been chosen by the White House to be…
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The nation’s leading GPS experts said in a newly released letter that a controversial broadband network would still interfere significantly with GPS receivers…
By Dee Ann Divis
The M-Code receiver operates using a more powerful signal, resistant to cyber threats. Photo source: Rockwell Collins. Rockwell Collins recently delivered the last…
By Dee Ann Divis
Maj. Gen. Roger Teague, the director of space programs in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Acquisition. Photo courtesy of Air Force….
By Dee Ann Divis
The Virginia firm that had been hoping to use satellite frequencies near the GPS band to support a terrestrial broadband network has changed…
By Dee Ann Divis
Though the United States has been working on a backup for GPS for years, and was actually close to completing an equipment update…
By Dee Ann Divis
Though civilian GNSS activities fared reasonably well in the just-signed 2017 federal budget, the White House has already forecast cuts across non-defense agencies…
By Dee Ann Divis
European Union (EU) member countries are close to adopting a standard for satellite navigation receivers. The proposed standard covers Satellite Earth Stations and…
By Dee Ann Divis
Figures and Charts The GPS community and Virginia-based Ligado are weighing new and upcoming test results as the standoff over interference with satellite…
By Dee Ann Divis
With two federal budgets in play simultaneously, defense spending increases being proposed from multiple directions and a looming government shutdown it’s easy to…
By Dee Ann Divis
