May 19, 2009 - The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense recently released new details concerning the highly controversial National Security Personnel System (NSPS).
In a formal announcement, Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn called on the Defense Business Board to assemble a task force to review the troubled system.
The announcement drew an immediate response from IAM-NFFE Federal District 1 President Richard N. Brown, who praised Director Berry and Deputy Secretary Lynn for taking swift action to assess the NSPS. "Once it is exposed for the anti-union, anti-worker personnel system that it is, they will come to agree with us that nothing short of a complete repeal is the only way to move forward,” said Brown.
In his instruction to the Defense Business Board, Deputy Secretary Lynn called for recommendations aimed at helping the Department determine (1) if the underlying design principles and methodology for implementation are reflected in the program objectives; (2) whether the program objectives are being met; and (3) whether NSPS is operating in a fair, transparent, and effective manner.
The review board will be chaired by Rudy deLeon, the senior vice president of National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. The other members of the group will be Michael Bayer, chairman of the Defense Business Board, and Robert Tobias, a professor at American University and director for the Institute for the Study of Public Policy Implementation.
