A federal court has slapped down as illegal a new personnel system at the Department of Homeland Security. That isn’t going to stop DOD, which is pushing ahead with a similar plan for its own workers. The Pentagon earlier this year published new rules for its National Security Personnel System showing that NSPS emulates the DHS system in the very areas that got DHS in hot water, namely labor relations. A Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday that DOD intends to proceed, regardless, and expects to crank up the new system later this year. We’ll see.
If the Air Force is in line for a big budget bump from President Donald Trump’s proposed $1.5 trillion defense budget in 2027, the head of Air Combat Command said he would make aircraft spare parts his top spending priority—but cautioned that more money to buy parts won’t equal a…
