>>11937313It's the largest NSF astronomy project currently. It's not minor, half a billion is a huge project in ground based astronomy. The second ranked project in that category has not been funded by NSF.
And it's not the only project. If you just consider the ground and optical surveys you have LSST, DES, VST, VISTA/4MOST, DESI, WEAVE, SDSS, Panstarrs, Skymapper, 2dF, CFHT/MSE, HETDEX, NGTS, Subaru HSC+PFS. There's probably more too, but those are the major ones.
