| Comment Number: | OL-10501014 |
| Received: | 2/23/2005 8:44:59 AM |
| Subject: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| Title: | National Security Personnel System |
| CFR Citation: | 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901 |
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Comments:
This new program is exciting and very much necessary. The only concerns I have are base on the how this process interacts with the military environment. You refer to this as rhetorical if necessary. 1- Is there accommodation for the civilian rank structure to equate to the military structure? In that, does a civilian under specific supervisory requirements have the recourse of invoking UCMJ action against subordinate military members? What is the chain of ordinance under this new system? 2- With the consistent changes of military personnel, the command/supervisory structure of a civilian are experienced often. When a superior/supervisor of a civilian changes and the affect of the relationship changes (for the good or bad) between them, does this new system permit a ponderance of change for the civilian's role or valuation? What prevents whimsical changes in the role or rating of a civilian? 3- The civilian being included/treated as part of the military is often an integral part of mission accomplishment. Although guidelines offer distinct differences in discipline and "rights/privileges" this system must engender equalization of the force, regardless of these differences. The seemingly instilled fear of "union" interference or reaction to incidental treatment by military supervisors of civilians might continue to prove detrimental to national security and mission objectives. There must be a means for military supervisors to invoke immediate (temporary) disciplinary measures to achieve the mission objective. This, of course must also be satisifed by how the civilian rank structure equates to the military, made most obvious to both.