Reminder: SAVE Awards ideas due Thursday

Federal workers have until Thursday to compete in the second annual SAVE Award, the Obama administration’s effort to solicit rank and file suggestions on how the government can improve operations and trim its bottom line.

Workers can visit www.SaveAward.gov to submit their ideas and vote on the best submissions thus far. The general public will have a chance to vote on the contest later this fall and the eventual winner gets a face-to-face meeting with President Obama. The winning idea also will be included in Obama’s fiscal 2012 budget requests.