DoD employees are seeing a greater linkage between pay and how well employees perform on the job, according to a breakdown of the government-wide employee attitude survey that OPM conducted last year. In that survey, 28 percent of DoD employees responded positively to the question of whether there was such a linkage, an increase of six percentage points over the 2006 survey and the only question on the survey in which there was a difference of five percentage points or more. The increase came during a period when DoD was phasing about 200,000 employees into the NSPS system, which has pay for performance as one of its fundamental elements. Government-wide, the positive response was up by four points to 26 percent from the 2006 survey, a trend apparently driven largely by the responses from DoD employees. The future of NSPS is very much in doubt, however, due to opposition from employee organizations and some in Congress, along with a newly launched administrative review of the program.