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GAO-09-669R 1 (2009-05-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaannk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I GA 0 TM WAccountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 May 18, 2009 The Honorable Solomon Ortiz Chairman Subcommittee on Readiness Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives Subject: Questions for the Record Related to the Implementation of the Department of Defense's National Security Personnel System It was a pleasure to appear before your subcommittee on April 1, 2009, to discuss the Department of Defense's (DOD) implementation of its new human capital system for managing civilian personnel-the National Security Personnel System (NSPS).' This letter responds to your request that I provide answers to questions for the record from the hearing. The questions, along with my responses, follow. Questions from Chairman Ortiz 1. GAO noted that NSPS was implemented too quickly. 0 What steps could have been taken to roll out NSPS in a more orderly and fair fashion? As we have previously reported, we support the need to expand broad banding approaches and pay-for-performance-based systems in the federal government.2 However, moving too quickly or prematurely to implement such programs, whether at DOD or elsewhere, can significantly raise the risk of doing it incorrectly. Hasty implementation could also set back the legitimate need to move to a more performance- and results-based system for the federal government as a whole. Thus, while it is imperative that we take steps to better link employee pay to performance across the federal government, how it is done, when it is done, and the basis on which it is done can make all the difference in whether or not such efforts are successful. In our view, one key need is to modernize performance management 'GAO, Human Capital: Improved Implementation of Safeguards and an Action Plan to Address Employee Concerns Could Increase Employee Acceptance of the National Security Personnel System, GAO-09-464T (Washington, D.C.: April 1, 2009). 2 GAO, Defense Transformation: DOD's Proposed Civilian Personnel System and Governmentwide Human Capital Reform, GAO-03-741T (Washington, D.C.: May 1, 2003). GAO-09-669R Human Capital

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