Review revise Federal Computer Programs
Review purchasing protocol. Now to purchase something it must be submitted in PMIS, then re-entered in IDEAS. Even worse, If it is facility related you must enter it... more »
Set computer monitors to turn off after 5 minutes of no use, and computer to enter sleep mode after 15-30 minutes to lower energy consumption.
Require all employees to turn off their computers every night. The energy used by one computer may be small, but the combined effect of all of these computers is significant.
Environmental Protection Agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA should manage its own desktop information technology infrastructure - which is presently outsourced to several different contractors. The current system is inefficient, slow, and expensive. By replacing the layers of outsourcing contractors with a single, unified IT authority at each NASA center, the process could be made more effective.
IT requires all employees in our Agency to keep their computers on at night so they can run updates. I appreciate that they do this at night however why not write a simple scrip that would shut down the PC once the updates have been completed. Think of all the electricity it would save plus reduce potential hacking if the machine was shut off.
Streamline the procurement for computer hardware, or at least provide a way to update the specs so we can get the latest hardware. Because of the time it takes for the paperwork to get done, the hardware is usually obsolete by the time we get it - while the gov't still pays top dollars for it. There are lots of waste happening in government paying for obsolete computer hardware.
Replace all federal desktops with thin-edge terminals OR desk-ports for a work laptop.
Untether the workforce from cubeland (and then reduce the cubes).
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Switch to MAC computers. It will cost more in the beginning but save money in the long run. They are much faster and reliable. Vista made the computers much slower!
Department of Homeland Security
Take the old computers and donate them to local schools for reuse. You can wipe the computers clean to keep this country safe.
Provide in house on site IT support. Those of us who are not IT experts spend WAY too much time trying to install/upgrade/migrate/reimage/retrofit our computers. A few years ago, all IT support functions were centralized and taken out of offices, leaving employees to forge for themselves. Let's put IT support back at employee level. Thanks!
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
I suggest you put another computer screen next to the existing one to improve an employee's efficiency.