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.
UPDATE: A week after this story appeared the news broke that Fred Kennedy had quit as the head of the Air Force’s new…
By Dee Ann Divis
New Board Designation Expected This Fall The leading U.S. panel of satellite navigation experts, the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board…
By Dee Ann Divis
Location privacy is on the minds of lawmakers from both parties with provisions about disclosure, data collection and sharing in more than half…
By Dee Ann Divis
The House Appropriations Committee approved all but $10 million of the $1.758 billion requested by the White House for the GPS program.
By Dee Ann Divis
Improvements to GPS performance are often incremental, achieved by squeezing better performance out of existing systems with clever tweaks, smarter analysis and…
By Dee Ann Divis
A House resolution now up for consideration details the way GPS is used and its impact on the economy.
By Dee Ann Divis
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has designated positioning, navigation, and timing services (PNT) a “National Critical Function.” That is PNT is now…
By Dee Ann Divis
In testimony and reports U.S. military officials have been stressing for some time that the GPS constellation is a top target on…
By Dee Ann Divis
The $2 billion lawsuit filed by Harbinger Capital Partners against Apollo Global Management over whether Apollo knew about GPS interference issues has been…
By Dee Ann Divis
New York City reportedly had its government wireless network knocked out on April 6 when the GPS week number in signal’s message rolled…
By Dee Ann Divis
GNSS spoofing is more wide spread than previously believed and being used to not only misdirect satellite navigation users but to deny GNSS…
By Dee Ann Divis
As part of the development of a National Spectrum Strategy, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is asking for feedback on future spectrum…
By Dee Ann Divis
The recently released White House budget request includes money to buy the first of the GPS III follow-on satellites (GPS IIIF) and a…
By Dee Ann Divis
The GPS community made real progress during 2018. The first GPS III satellite was launched, the contractor for the GPS IIIF satellites was…
By Dee Ann Divis
There are congressional caucuses dedicated to building support for everything from auto care and addiction treatment to chickens and Vietnam. Some caucuses become…
By Dee Ann Divis