Pentagon officials have released the pay tables for the new National Security Personnel System. (They can be found here.) The NSPS Web site also now features a conversion fact sheet that gives general information concerning conversion to the new program. All of this may be premature, of course, since there is ongoing litigation and Congress may tell the Pentagon to slow down.
The U.S. began extensive air and artillery strikes against Islamic State group targets in Syria on Dec. 19 in retaliation for the killing of three Americans on Dec. 13 by a gunman affiliated with ISIS, U.S. officials said.

