Department of Homeland Security
Mutual Disaster Recovery Backup (MDRB)
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Converting Unused Sick Leave to Annual Leave
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In House Promotions
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F-22/F-35 maintenance cost
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Cell Phone Cost Savings
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Department of Veterans Affairs
Volunteer Time Off- No loss in Benefits,FTE Status, or TIG
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Department of Veterans Affairs
Alisha Franczak, RRT, BS (respiratory therapist)
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Department of Health and Human Services
Eliminate Spending on Promotional Trinkets
This idea applies to ALL government agencies. Eliminate all spending on promotional trinkets. The cumulative cost of the trinkets is excessive and the time spent ordering the trinkets is wasteful. The trinkets collect dust, often end up unused, and shouldn't be paid for by taxpayers.
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Department of Veterans Affairs
No Skipping General Schedule Grades
Most of the federal job postings I have seen skip the even levels of GS-6, GS-8 and GS-10 and use only the odd designations of GS-5, GS-7, GS-9 and GS-11. Under the current schedule, a newly hired GS-7 employee under “The Rest of the US” locality pay scale would typically receive annual raises... more »
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Review ALL SAVE ideas for Cost Cutting
And isn't that what this AWARD is about? To SAVE money within the federal government? Then let's just do it...... more »
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Eliminate Annual Clothing Allowances for Military
As of 31 May 2011, the Department of Defense had 1,182,849 enlisted members worldwide from all services. (DoD Personnle and military casualty statistics)
If the U.S. would do away with this automatic... more »
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Skill Database for Agencies
What problem are you trying to solve?
At any given moment each agency has over a hundred individual internal projects going on. To get these completed in most cases offices solely use talent within their office. I propose that we create either a talent pool database that associates skills with each divisions employee... more »
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Reduce daily work hours by 2hrs
For a quick calculation of the saving:10hrs (2hrs per day x 5 days) per employee multiplied x (#of federal employees+ #of local staff) x average hourly salary/wage per hour.
This not only saves the government... more »
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Environmental Protection Agency
Scientific Integrity in Regulatory Agencies
Since 2004, the US EPA has been using contractors... more »