| Comment Number: | OL-10506388 |
| Received: | 3/11/2005 2:37:00 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:
As a 1515 analyst with 27 years of experience both as a military officer, contractor, and a civilian, may I say that this is an absolutely ridiculous block-filling exercise. How am I suppose to evaluate a system that you provide no details on? This document reads like a political speech. It is full of optimistic statements lacking any proof whatsoever. The current system works fairly well, thank you, and could run efficiently with a few tweaks, and if supervisors would just use the system as intended. You are going to implement a new system fraught with the same problems as the old and it will add additional ones as well. I see absolutely nothing in your document that gives me any hope that anything will improve, but I see lots of red flags that are potential landmines for us supervisors. I work in the R&D environment side-by-side with military, some of whom spend their entire careers behind desks in offices like mine. May I suggest that in the interest of Total Force, you put all of them in pay bands too and adjust their yearly salaries based on performance. Maybe that would incentivize those in their last 3 years not to be ROAD! Our office would be more than happy to provide any analysis of and recommendations for the new system if you so desire. It’s the kind of thing we do for a living. Please contact the Office of Aerospace Studies at Kirtland Air Force Base.