When I did field geophysics back in a previous life, I remember talking with a senior geologist who was in charge of the project. This wasn't a project that would ever be big enough to get the interest of your office, but he was saying that he was spending over 50% of his valuable time—he was a geologist with 25 years of field experience—doing paperwork.
Are there principles here that can be applied throughout the entire government? Not every federal project, I think, falls under your office's jurisdiction. If it works well for major projects, why wouldn't this sort of principle work for all projects involved?
Do you have any comments on that?