The Department of Defense announced new policy and procedures Thursday that will prioritize performance over other considerations for future reduction in force decisions determining which civilian employees should be retained. Previously, RIF decisions prioritized tenure, then veteran’s preference, length of service, and performance. The new policy, which was mandated by the Fiscal 2016 National Defense Authorization Act, establishes a retention register that will rank employees based on current performance review first, then tenure, followed by an average of all performance reviews, veteran’s preference, and finally DOD Service Computation Date, according to a DOD release.
The Air Force wants to pump more than $12 billion over the next five years into its new affordable long-range missiles program and recently asked industry to push the flights of some of those munitions beyond 1,200 miles.