SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

Have you ever needed to find someone in your agency that has the expertise or authority to help you on a project? Me too. How long did it take you to finally find the right person? How many emails did you send? Phone calls made? Hours/days wasted?

I propose the federal government invests in and/or creates an interactive web tool on the intranet that let's federal employees create a user profile... with expertise... more »

USGS has separate data systems for project descriptions, publications, biographical web pages for scientists, peer review and highlights. These systems do not share information that is required by multiple systems. All require citation information for publications. If they were all synchronized, and one fed information into the others, the information could be entered once (saving time and effort), could be kept more... more »

Honorable Members of House appear to not be aware of studies which have been completed on topics of interest and to justify the related costs to complete. Due to current housing crisis multiple studies are being completed or have been completed pertaining to the same topic. If the data of the completed studies is still relevant an additional study should not be completed. However, simple easy accessible database... more »

On all new prescriptions, pharmacy should ask if you want URL for electronic drug info or paper copy for those who don't have access to computer or who desire paper copy. Gov should create electronic data base of drug info that they now give patients in paper copy form. Most patients will choose electronic form and $Millions of dollars in paper cost will be saved annually.

Enable all agencies to use the same Property Management System so all agencies can search the same property system data base. We would become more efficient as a government to be able to search one data base for new or used materials and equipment other agencies need to clear out of their buildings.