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Monday, April 20. 2009
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GITA ITAG Meeting Focuses on American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funding
GITA's Industry Trends and Analysis Group (ITAG) [click for larger image at right] put a focus on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) aka the stimulus package. During the meeting, I presented some of the resources about where stimulus money will be headed. The PowerPoint presentation used by the group can now be download. A brief summary is below.
ARRA funds will most likely impact geospatial technology as follows:
- $8B Grants for capital investments in designated high-speed rail corridors
- $29B Grants for highway improvements
- $650M Renovation of forest roads, bridges and trails, remediation of abandoned mines, removal of barriers to fish and other critical habitat
- $140M Repairing facilities and equipment for U.S. Geological Survey seismic, volcano, monitoring and stream gages
- $4.4B Modernization of the electric grid
ARRA funds "may" impact geospatial technology adoption:
- $290M - Funding for watershed and flood prevention projects
- $150M - Urban industrial core and rural economic recovery programs
- $8.4B - Public transit improvements and infrastructure investments
- $1.1B - Grants for airport improvements
- $150M - Grants for security upgrades to ports
- $142M - Repairing and removing bridges hazardous to marine navigation
- $100M - Border security fencing and technology
- $200M - Funding for DHS site security, IT infrastructure, furniture, fixtures and other costs for headquarters
- $100M - Clean-up of 'brownfield' former industrial sites
- $400M - NASA climate research
- $230M - Extra money for NOAA
- $350M - Salaries and expenses for program to create broadband inventory map of the country
- $1B - Extra money for Census Bureau
The PowerPoint has many more links, resources and graphics.
Posted by Joe Francica
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