SAVE Award 2011 Office of Director of National Intelligence

Get rid of libraries at federal agencies. Rarely used for intended purpose as most people research online.

Our National Capitol Region (NCR) intelligence workforce can greatly decrease reliance on fossil fuels and help reduce NCR traffic congestion by implementing and maximizing remote work locations closest to the employee residential areas. For example, Intelligence Community members could joint-lease secure buildings located in high-density employee residential "regions" which would reduce commutes and improve quality... more »

The Office of Personnel Management's investigations cost significantly more than those acquired by authorized agencies from commercial investigative services providers. OPM’s pricier products offer no advantages in coverage, timeliness or quality. OPM charges approximately $4100.00 for investigations for Top Secret clearance, while commercial providers charge as much as $1400.00 less. OPM performs over 100,000 such... more »

There are not many government wide video conferencing systems. One is the Tandberg VTC system. The equipment is overpriced, proprietary, and so are the licences. Literally thousands of dollars per unit.

Another services is Defense Connect Online (DCO) which utilitzed web-based adobe connect on the backend. This excellent service is already available to government organizations on multiple networks with NO cost to participants.... more »

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 »

I will not go into too much detail on this matter. The ideas speaks for itself as if you investigate many resources within the organization can be reallocated to NGA and NSA and space based management can be fully taken on by the Air Force. The organization no longer can justify it's existence when you look at how much money you can save by getting rid of it.

Once again, this would be a disband and reallocation of it's... more »

Currently, every armed service and organization within the government hosts their own email services to thier employees. I propose a single enterprise email account system for government employees and it should be web-based for accessibility anywhere in the world.

This would significantly reduce cost by eliminating individual email servers maintained in all services, agencies, and other organizations.

Intelink offers... more »

The Intelligence Community has multiple message handling systems, all with separate funding but with similar functional requirements. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence should support one system, consolidate funding and requirements and then insist it work seamlessly on all the various networks.