| Comment Number: | OL-10504730 |
| Received: | 3/10/2005 9:39:28 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:
Page 7556 of the Federal Register indicates that the PEO's communications strategy was to demonstrate openness and transparency in the design and process of converting to NSPS. This may sound good, but in practice, it failed miserably. If this was really true, then employees throughout DoD would've known at the end of 2003 that there was a change coming. And we would've known where and how to get involved if we could. In today's electronic age, publishing this information should have been easy: the SecDef, before he established the PEO, sends out pertinent information in a message to all his honchos with the directive to get it to the lowest levels. In the Corps of Engineers, this would have meant that Rumsfeld told Flowers who could have easily done a CORPS-ALL message. Not one word was heard until late 2004. That this did not happen leads one to suspect either incompetence or secrecy. LTG Flowers is not incompetent, so one must believe that the employees are getting steam-rolled. It also leads one to believe that some of the information in the Federal Register (broad cross-sections of employees being invited to participate ... or that key stakeholders were involved) was just made up to make it look good so that Congress did not get involved until too late.