| Comment Number: | OL-10501626 |
| Received: | 2/27/2005 1:47:11 PM |
| 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:
Comments concerning - Federal Register: February 14, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 29) Proposed Rules: FR Document 05-2582/NSPS (National Security Personnel System) Page 7563: "In order to meet its critical mission requirements in a dynamic national security environment, the Department needs greater flexibility to attract, recruit, shape, and retain a high quality workforce. While preserving merit principles and veterans' preference requirements, subpart E of the proposed regulations provides DoD with an expanded set of flexible hiring tools to respond effectively to continuing mission changes and priorities. DoD managers will have greater flexibility in acquiring, advancing, and shaping a workforce tailored to the Department's needs. The new flexibilities provide DoD managers with a greater range of options to adapt their recruitment and hiring strategies to meet changing mission and organizational needs, including consideration of the nature and duration of work. The proposed regulations also address the need to compete for the best talent available by providing the Department with the ability to streamline and accelerate the recruitment process." These are unproven assertions. The tools for all of this exist in today's statutes and regulations. "However, where DoD determines that it has a critical mission requirement, the Department and OPM may establish such an authority, upon notice in the Federal Register but without a preceding comment period. In addition, DoD and OPM may establish excepted appointing authorities for positions that are not in the competitive service without specific notice in the Federal Register." This baldly states that DoD can do anything it wishes to do without oversight or checks and balances.