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In 2006 I published an article in GeminiFocus that examined funding forastronomical adaptive optics related technology and instrumentation in theUnited States from 1995 through mid-2006. That article concluded that based onprojections then current, AO implementation on public and private telescopes inthe U.S. will soon seriously lag that on the ESO VLT as measured by fundsavailable. It called for a significant infusion of public funds for AOdevelopment and implementation so that when combined with private funds, theU.S. astronomical community as a whole would be able to take full advantage ofAO systems on both public and private telescopes. In 2006 I estimated that thetotal amount of public (NSF) funds that would be available in 2009 for AOrelated non-science activities would be about $6M.  This article updates the analysis done in my previous article. I show thatfor 2009 the funds for AO related non-science activities are about $7M in spiteof the termination of the AODP program. Federal stimulus funds (ARRA) to theNSF and its grant programs account for a not insignificant part of this $7M. Imake the probably optimistic prediction that in 2010 there will be just over$6M in NSF funds available for AO related non-science work.  Thus there has been no significant real increase of public funding for AOdevelopment and implementation since the predictions made in 2006. If privatefunding in the US and the level of ESO AO funding is close to the valuespredicted in my previous article, then ESO on one observatory, will beoutspending all US AO efforts spread over about a dozen observatories by afactor of three.

Funding for Adaptive Optics in the United States by the National Science Foundation 2006-2009: An Update