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. continued to move a significant amount of airpower toward the Middle East in recent days as talks to forge a nuclear deal with Iran hung in the balance. Flight tracking data indicate there was unusually heavy movement of dozens of fighter jets and other assets that might be…



