NEON is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and is not itself a funding agency. Research related to NEON may be supported through existing funding mechanisms at Federal agencies and through other funding sources.
NEON is a recipient of funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. $433 Million has been approved for the 2011 Fiscal Year budget by the Obama administration as of February 2010, dispersed as part of a six-year plan:
FY 2011 $20 million
FY 2012 $87.92 million
FY 2013 $101.07 million
FY 2014 $103.43 million
FY 2015 $86.23 million
FY 2016 $32.07 million
Total: $433.72 million
Cyberinfrastructure TEAM (CI-TEAM)(http://www.nsf.gov/ci-team): Demonstration Projects (at nsf.gov)
Division of Ocean Sciences MARGINS Program(www.nsf-margins.org)
Division of Ocean Sciences Development of Technologies for Coastal Observing Systems and the Study of Benthic Boundary Layer Processes(http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13470)