The Treasury Department included these paragraphs about TIPS in their August 2009 Quarterly Refunding Statement (emphasis added):

Treasury is committed to issuing TIPS in a regular and predictable manner across the yield curve. These securities are an important part of our overall debt management strategy, and market participants can expect issuance to gradually increase in FY 2010.

In a recent interview with Consuelo Mack of the TV program WealthTrack, David Swensen, the Chief Investment Officer of Yale University, said he liked new-issue TIPS.