I would be excited about this and have wondered for a while if we should have EA awards. This Washington post article brought the idea to my mind again:
Civil servants who screwed up were dragged before Congress and into the news. Civil servants who did something great, no one said a word about. There was thus little incentive to do something great, and a lot of incentive to hide. The awards were meant to correct that problem. “There’s no culture of recognition in government,” said Max Stier, whom Heyman hired to run the Partnership. “We wanted to create a culture of recognition.”
I would be excited about this and have wondered for a while if we should have EA awards. This Washington post article brought the idea to my mind again: