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 software and hardware development phase of the new GPS ground system program is now complete and the team is moving on to…
By Dee Ann Divis
Gen. John E. Hyten, an officer deeply familiar with the GPS program whose testimony before Congress underscored the need to protect satellite navigation…
By Dee Ann Divis
Ultra-Wideband Re-Emerges As GPS Interference Issue Seventeen years after federal regulators restricted a promising wireless technology to protect GPS and other spectrum users,…
By Dee Ann Divis
The Department of Transportation (DOT) will launch, in a matter of weeks, the contracting process to perform field demonstrations of different GPS-backup technologies.
By Dee Ann Divis
The Federal Railroad Administration has nearly $245 million available to support railway infrastructure and safety improvements including the installation of Positive Train Control…
By Dee Ann Divis
Air Force Space Command announced its intent this week to award Raytheon a sole source contract to support the new GPS ground system…
By Dee Ann Divis
GPS Innovation Alliance Asks for More Time to Respond Spectrum regulators are considering a request to modify tough restrictions on devices and systems…
By Dee Ann Divis
Ligado Networks is pushing spectrum regulators to make a decision on its request to allow satellite frequencies near the GPS band to also…
By Dee Ann Divis
China’s Xi’an Satellite Control Center recently completed a health check of more than 10 BeiDou-2 navigation satellites using a data system that slashed…
By Dee Ann Divis
House and Senate lawmakers have agreed on authorizing the administration’s entire $1.757 billion budget request for the GPS program with the exception of…
By Dee Ann Divis
Safety and cost reasons led U.S. aviation regulators to choose a somewhat less efficient system for oceanic air traffic control, government watchdogs told…
By Dee Ann Divis
Gen. John E. Hyten, who led Air Force Space Command before becoming commander of U.S. Strategic Command, has been nominated to be the…
By Dee Ann Divis
Spectrum regulators should hold off on granting a waiver supporting testing of a new UltraWideband (UWB) technology for driverless vehicles until more information…
By Dee Ann Divis
A judge has discontinued a $2 billion lawsuit alleging “massive fraud” in a deal that helped launch a proposed project GPS experts oppose…
By Dee Ann Divis
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA — NASA is poised to demonstrate an advanced atomic clock that could someday markedly improve satellite navigation.
By Dee Ann Divis