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.
The Space Force should take bold, decisive steps—and soon—to develop the capabilities and architecture needed to support more flexible, dynamic operations in orbit and counter Chinese aggression and technological progress, according to a new report from AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
