What staffing flexibilities are contained in NSPS?
Under current law and regulation, the way in which DoD recruits, hires, promotes, sets pay, and retains employees is governed by a massive and complex set of federal civil service laws, rules, regulations, and policies. NSPS gives us the opportunity to define a new human resource system featuring streamlined hiring, simplified job changes, a less complex classification system, and workforce shaping procedures. The new system will make it easier and faster for prospective applicants to apply for DoD vacancies. On-board employees will see simplified competitive procedures and streamlined application and referral processes. A number of these features have already been demonstrated successfully in our Laboratory Demonstration and Acquisition Demonstration projects. This is good news for both managers and employees.
