| Comment Number: | OL-10508978 |
| Received: | 3/15/2005 11:47:33 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:
I find it difficult to make the leap between a terrorist strike against the United States and the need to revamp the DoD Personnel System. Except for the parties and political haymaking, the Dept of Homeland Security appears to have bridged the non-cooperation between agencies and personnel that may have promoted our loss. Nor do I see this change as a key to identifying critical security personnel in sudden emergencies; we already do that within the existing framework. The appearance of this effort is that a steady, dedicated workforce of government personnel serving the country is no longer needed, that the corporate world deals in rapid change and the government has to mirror that. Civil servants must be ever-reaching to find and embrace the new and exciting ideas of the business spawn in order to have a place at all is the spoonful at our lips. Nah. NSPS is the DoD's sudden death approach to handling good employees. Adopted it will open the leadership's back-door to many of the employment, promotion, and recognition shortfalls and abuses in the personnel system that have been winnowed out over the decades, and which will eventually have to be revisited when the pendulum begins to swing back. NSPS is ground similar to where DLA Managers are trying to crawl to, and where their employee climate survey keeps burying them. This is someone's political agenda, not a business improvement. Nah.