THE STIMULUS ARRIVED, HURRAH, HURRAH! ... to the tune of $100M. The company I work for was just recently offered the opportunity to submit an RFQ (Request for Quotation) to support the Ocean Observatories Initiative, funded in part by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 (e.g., TARP follow-on).

For successful proposers, that money could start flowing out of government/NGO coffers as soon as, umm ... fiscal 2011.