SAVE Award 2011 Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency

IDEA: consolidation of the Customs and Border Protection Federal Inspection Site security seal programs throughout the agency into one national seal office. Each local seal program drains the collective attentions of CBP port administration by diverting officer’s efforts away from the important work being done at the ports. Redundancies exist in the criminal checks performed by local CBP seal program officers on airport ...more »

dont waste timeas is practicalas with all buisneses time is moneyno need to go through 20 hand when you can fax or bring it directly there

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) should be unified under one large agency rather than be broken apart and segregated, which is its current form. When unified, this would allow auditors, examiners, and investigators to collaborate more efficiently in order to improve the detection of fraud, waste, and abuse within the Federal Government, which would further increase efficiency and speed at which the OIG can recover ...more »

The cost of electricity in Government buiildings is stagering. Even a small precentage of the cost in power reduction would be very meaningful. Changing out the lights in vending machines to LED and then requiring all new vending machines to have LED lighting. The total energy cost savings would be two fold in that the cost of lighting would be cheaper and the cooler light would also save more cost efficient by the ...more »