Key Features of Proposal

The key features of the DoD plan to create a for itself include: streamlined recruitment and candidate ranking; universal pay banding for five career groups; supervisory pay; simplified appointments, assignments, and reduction in force authorities; allowing annuitants who become employed in the department to retain their annuities; raising the total compensation cap for senior executives to the Vice President’s salary (currently $198,600); putting in law the agency’s authority to establish a priority placement program for certain displaced civilian employees; loosening the rules restricting contracting-out of depot maintenance work; eliminating the requirement that contracting-out decisions be based solely on cost; updating special rules governing the DoD acquisition workforce; and transferring security background investigations to the Office of Personnel Management, a proposal raised earlier this year in the administration’s budget request.