SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

Eliminate End of year spending. Allow money to cross fiscal years. This would eliminate the need to do new Purchase orders every October 1 for contracts from the previous years. If money can flow across the FY then it has the ability to save the government time, money and energy. There should be an incentive to return any unused portion of an agencies budget to the treasury.

Reference DODI 4715.5 and DODI 4715.03: Overseas US Installations

Overseas military installations usually subcontract out to local engineers for repairs to anything and everything on the installation. In doing this the local company / agency will charge an exorbitant amount of money to come and in and take days if weeks to fix nothing. I have had to escort these workers around and have personally seen a great portion... more »

We all know that government issued vehicles are a big expense in the government. However, they are a bigger expense then they need to be because of how poorly they are maintained, and that is largely because most government employees don't care for the government vehicles as they would their personal vehicles. This abuse destroys the vehicles in a shorter period of time.
My suggestion is to have quarterly vehicle inspection... more »

AMC Rodeo is an international airlift competition that takes place every other year at McChord AFB, WA. On paper, the event probably costs $1-2 million. In reality, it's probably closer to a half billion. Mobility aircrews from each AMC base spend 4-6 months doing nothing but practicing--going tdy, practicing short field landings and aerial refueling. AF brass will say "great, more training for our crews". Wrong.... more »

I have seen a lot of entries here calling for a stop to spending down at the end of the fiscal year. However, this is not just an end of year problem but a quarterly one as well. I work on the financial end of this organization and every quarter we are told to be near a certain amount spent or else. The notion of use it or lose with our money is a terrible way of treating our units. Instead of punishment for not spending... more »