Washington View
Washington View appears in each issue of Inside GNSS. It covers U.S. policy and program issues involving the Global Positioning System and other GNSSes. Reporting from Washington, D.C., columnist Dee Ann Divis has written about GNSS and the aerospace industry since the early 1990s in GPS World, Geo Info Systems, Jane’s International Defense Review, the Los Angeles Times, AeroSpace Daily and other publications.
January/February 2012
Military managers, fidgeting like new-year dieters at a Weight Watchers
meeting, anxiously wait to see what they'll have to live without now
that years of war-fueled budget indulgence are over. How will GPS fare
as Congress reviews the president's budget?
September/October 2011
Budget storms have reappeared on the horizon and the fore¬cast for defense expendi¬tures, including for the GPS program, is grim with a high probability of ugly.
July/August 2011
Faced with overwhelming evidence that its wireless broadband system would jam GPS receivers, hedge fund-backed LightSquared redirects its efforts towards Congress.
May/June 2011
DHS may pick up the pace on its six-year-long stroll for meeting mandates on GPS interference, while the FCC presses on with LightSquared broadband plan in L1 spectrum.
March/April 2011
The GPS community is seething over a January 26 decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) giving a conditional go ahead to a new broadband network with the potential to overwhelm GPS receivers across the country. Dee Ann Divis reports from Washington, D.C.