SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

The Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) was created to analyze, track, research, and reduce the effectivness of improved explosive devices (IED) to our soldiers in the field. This entire organization and it's sub-organizations are redundant to the existing intiatives that exist in agencies such as NGA, NSA, DIA, and the armed services which is often proven provide more IED analysis than JIEDDO itself. Let the armed... more »

This is vague, but look at the drop down list below. Isn't that a little long and obscure? I mean, just read the whole list, or the one you have to pick from when signing up for this site. Holy cats!

There is a huge list on the left side of this page with many agencies or departments that have NO ideas submitted under this SAVE program. Too much redundancy within the federal government. Time to eliminate agencies and departments that do (or don't do) the same thing that another agency or department.

The BLM and Forest Service have redundant missions (just different enabling legislations). Merge the agencies into one agency under the Department of the Interior.

FS funding comes through Interior channels (unlike the rest of the USDA) and all other land management agencies are under the DOI.

Falling under the DOI would enable the FS to abandon the incredibly wasteful project-oriented funding model and move to the... more »