Feedback from employees, supervisors, and unions has led the Defense Department to adjust its preliminary National Security Personnel System design, say Pentagon officials. For one, job objectives will focus on results, clearly establishing a line of sight from individual performance to organizational goals. And yet, the changes will not lesson the importance of the method of performance. (We did not make this up.) “The payout methodology, exercised after ratings are complete, will be based on a range of shares tied to the performance rating.” Let it be known that these adjustments are meant to make NSPS more “clear and understandable.”
The Air Force is placing Air Combat Command in charge of teaching combat tactics to fighter and remotely-piloted aircraft units, according to a May 12 announcement. Beginning this summer, the service will reassign the formal training units for the F-35, F-16, and MQ-9 from Air Education and Training Command to…