How will FMA approach the National Security Personnel System being put in at the Defense Department?
Perkinson: NSPS is law. Our concerns that we’ve expressed over the last year are transparency, training and budget. We have said from the beginning, if you are truly going to do pay for performance, you have to be ready to fund pay for performance and you have to put a training plan in place that is going to assist those supervisors that are going to implement this plan. It is robust training that is going to make this happen. We’ll be monitoring progress, identifying those areas where there are shortfalls. If we get anecdotal proof that there are shortfalls, we’ll identify those things. Q: How do you hope to improve FMA? Perkinson: My goals are to maintain the respect and community we have. I want to help narrow that gap between baby boomers getting ready to retire in three to five years and new supervisors coming on board. We want to give new supervisors an understanding of what our mission is all about. Our mission, while short in phrase, packs a lot of wallop: Promoting excellence
