SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

Agancies should post their financial information in real time in the public. This would be true transparency, and would allow people to understand exactly what is being spent where.

There are several systems in use throughout DoD to manage supply inventories, configuration management, Diminishing manufacturers etc. There is a huge oportunity with the advant of truly robust cloud data storage and data exchange formats like xml to save hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars by combining and merging this data into one superset.
The ideal is to use current data systems and develop a matrix... more »

Leverage XML or (at the lowest end of the technology challenges) MS Word to develop building blocks of content.

 

Use and recycle building block content across multiple projects and multiple documents.

 

Manage comment periods more efficiently by using tagging/metadata for data mining opportunities.

 

All of the above also promotes a paperless process.