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 GPS program is setting a new space-system standard for cyberdefense, and now the federal government is creating a framework to help operators…
By Dee Ann Divis
Significant progress has been made in integrating two classes of small, unmanned aircraft into the national air space (NAS), an area of considerable…
By Dee Ann Divis
In a part of the world where frustrated drivers will park anywhere, including squarely on a sidewalk, a local newspaper is using location…
By Dee Ann Divis
The Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, has signed a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA)…
By Dee Ann Divis
[Updated June 3, 2013] With the budget vise tightening, top Pentagon managers are readying some potentially dramatic changes to the GPS constellation —…
By Dee Ann Divis
Chuck Johnson, NASA Few domestic issues have evoked such excitement — and controversy — in recent years as a 2012 congressional mandate to…
By Dee Ann Divis
Congress is moving to limit the sharing of geolocation information. The Online Communications and Geolocation Protection Act (HR 983), introduced on March 6,…
By Dee Ann Divis
It’s spring and privacy proposals are popping up in abundance, threatening to complicate the lives of law enforcement officers, spoil the landscape for…
By Dee Ann Divis
Navigation users may benefit from GPS modernization sooner than expected thanks to an apparent shift in the schedule of the modernized GPS ground…
By Dee Ann Divis
The GPS program has taken a fiscal hit that will delay critical plans to begin multi-satellite launches and could ultimately hamper the Air…
By Dee Ann Divis
Legal filings suggest the U.S and the United Kingdom may be well on their way to working through a heated dispute over patents…
By Dee Ann Divis
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is expected to ask its top advisors on signal interference to help map out the allowable power limits…
By Dee Ann Divis
In one of three separate filings on Friday (September 28, 2012) would-be broadband provider LightSquared asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to set…
By Dee Ann Divis
With the debacle surrounding LightSquared’s now-stymied proposal still reverberating through Washington, federal agencies are studying ways to repurpose the spectrum adjacent to the…
By Dee Ann Divis
Future of air traffic control (FAA image) A public-private partnership created to reduce the financial burden involved in implementing the nation’s GPS-based, next-generation…
By Dee Ann Divis