| Comment Number: | OL-10506451 |
| Received: | 3/11/2005 3:32:02 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:
My comments relate to the Section entitled "The Case for action". This section describes the basic need to revise the civil service system and establish NSPS. It says we need "a future force that is defined less by size and more by mobility and swiftness, one that is easier to deploy and sustain, one that relies more heavily on stealth, precision weaponry, and information technology". If this is the case, I recommend the NSPS principles be applied to the military, especially to all military positions that are not directly involved in combat. The military has a more protected system than civil service. Their pay is automatic and their promotions are near automatic. A pay for performance system for the military would be just as appropriate as one for the civilians. The CNO, Admiral Clark, said "the Navy needs force-shaping tools, to ensure the Navy is properly sized and skilled to meet future callenges. In fact, we need a 21st-century human capital structure...to replace the near 50-year-old system that we possess today". I think NSPS is the right solution to the problems described by Admiral Clark. Let's go for it.