The full House could vote this week on the annual DoD authorization bill (HR-2647) containing several key personnel provisions. The bill would grant a 3.4 percent January raise for uniformed military personnel, a figure that acts as a marker for civilian federal employees in the name of pay parity. The bill also would: guarantee that all employees in the NSPS personnel system get raises at least as large as GS employees in their localities (currently there’s only a 60 percent guarantee but almost all employees under NSPS get raises larger than their GS counterparts); bar DoD from reclassifying any further GS positions to NSPS; require that all new hires must enter the GS system; and abolish NSPS within one year of the bill’s enactment unless DoD produces a report six months beforehand showing progress in the program sufficient to convince Congress that the program should be kept.