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.