DoD has scaled back its Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System, a pay for performance based system that was a Bush administration initiative, while also limiting a program of in-sourcing contractor jobs that was an Obama administration reaction to another of its predecessor’s programs. The Pentagon canceled the pay for performance elements of DCIPS outside of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, while ordering that affected employees not lose out on pay due to the transition out, paralleling the policy for the NSPS transition. Other elements are to continue, however, including a common occupational structure and performance evaluation system, and the use of bonuses and similar awards to reward good performance. Meanwhile, as part of a cost-saving move involving slimming down the Office of the Secretary of Defense, DoD has said it will end after this fiscal year the program of replacing contractors with federal employees, saying the expected savings haven’t been achieved. Federal unions, which have advocated insourcing for years, are urging DoD not to drop the program and that issue likely will arise in expected hearings on the overall cost-saving initiative.