DoD to Revise NSPS Policies

DoD has said it will revise rules and implementing guidance covering its national security personnel system in light of the recently approved 2008 DoD authorization law (PL 110-181). A summary for senior leaders of the department says that the portions of the NSPS regulations covering adverse actions, appeals and labor-management relations—which have never been implemented, largely due to a lawsuit—"are immediately void and will be removed from the regulations when they are revised. The department will continue operating under the government-wide authorities governing adverse actions, appeals and labor-management relations." Also "immediately void," it said, are the "workforce shaping" provisions of the NSPS regulations, which most notably sought to elevate performance over tenure as a tie-breaker in deciding who stays or goes in RIF situations.