American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Funds Request

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案资助的（公法111-5）。该奖项支持国家射电天文台（NRAO）的基础设施升级，这将确保现有NRAO资产的可行性，以支持地面射电天文学界的研究。运营效率、节能和现代化。 这些活动将延长政府拥有的设施的寿命，降低设施运营成本，加强节能，提高来访科学家，工作人员和游客的安全，并提高望远镜获得的数据的质量和数量。美国天文学界使用NRAO设施来解决前沿天文学研究中的突出问题。 通过这些升级，NRAO？支持这项研究的能力将大大提高。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award supports infrastructure upgrades at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) that will ensure the viability of current NRAO assets for supporting research by the ground-based radio astronomical community.A total of $5.4M is awarded to address infrastructure problems associated with facility maintenance, operational efficiency, energy conservation, and modernization. These activities will improve the longevity of government-owned facilities, reduce the cost of facility operations, enhance energy conservation, improve the safety of visiting scientists, staff and visitors, and improve the quality and quantity of data acquired with the telescopes.NRAO facilities are used by the US astronomical community to address outstanding problems in forefront astronomical research. Through these upgrades, NRAO?s ability to support this research will be substantially enhanced.