As of Friday morning, the Obama administration had received 15,000 unique ideas for how to make government more efficient from about 19,000 federal employees who had either posted a proposal or voted on the idea they liked best.
The ideas -- due by the end of the day Friday -- were submitted as part of the Securing Americans Value and Efficiency (SAVE) awards, instituted in 2009 to cull cost-saving strategies from front-line workers.
2010's winner was Trudy Givens, a Bureau of Prisons employee who suggested ending automatic delivery of hard copies of the Federal Register.
Obama made a reference to that idea in announcing his Campaign to Cut Waste, launched in June.
The Save Award, though three years old, is now being touted as part of the anti-waste campaign in White House emails.
Administration officials will select four finalists among the thousands of cost-cutting ideas and then the general public will pick the winning proposal.
Joseph Marks
Joseph Marks covers government technology issues, social media, Gov 2.0 and global Internet freedom for Nextgov. He previously reported on federal litigation and legal policy for Law360 and on local, state and regional issues for two Midwestern newspapers. He also interned for Congressional Quarterly’s Homeland Security section and the Associated Press’s Jerusalem Bureau. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s in international affairs from Georgetown.
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