The President’s SAVE (Securing Americans’ Value and Efficiency) Award

In 2009, President Obama called for “a process through which every government worker can submit their ideas for how their agency can save money and perform better.” The President’s SAVE (Securing Americans’ Value and Efficiency) Award fulfilled this commitment by enabling Federal employees from across the government to submit their ideas for efficiencies and savings as part of the annual Budget process. Now in 2010, the process expanded so Federal employees could both submit ideas and vote on ideas submitted by others in a collaborative process. OMB is now reviewing the most popular ideas to choose finalists.