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VCSAF challenges federal employees to SAVE!

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  • By Gen. Larry O. Spencer
  • Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force
WASHINGTON --  Fellow Airmen,

The White House continues to challenge all federal employees to help identify areas we can cut wasteful spending. Over the past three years, 85,000 ideas have been submitted through the Securing Americans Value and Efficiency (SAVE) initiative. I'm proud to say many ideas were submitted by our Airmen. I again encourage your participation. You have day-to-day
visibility into opportunities to eliminate non-value added activity and wasted resources. In these challenging fiscal times, every dollar counts and every good idea matters. Based on your overwhelming response to our recent Every Dollar Counts Campaign, I'm sure many of you still have ideas on how to make the DoD even more efficient.

If you would like to participate in this year's SAVE initiative, please go to the Office of Management and Budget  website www.whitehouse.gov/save-award to submit your ideas by the Aug. 9 deadline. Many of the best ideas will be included in the 2015 President's Budget submission. One winner will have the opportunity to present his or her idea directly to President Obama. You will find the criteria for evaluation of ideas defined at the OMB SAVE website.

Let me remind all that classified information should not be included in any submission.

I again give you my thanks in advance for your participation in this year's White House SAVE challenge, and for what each of you do to make our Air Force better and nation more secure every day.

Sincerely,

Larry O. Spencer
General, USAF
Vice Chief of Staff