Posts Tagged ‘NSPS’

Earlier this week, President Obama signed the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act. While a full repeal of the National Security Personnel System (NSPS) dominated headlines, one largely underreported aspect of the bill – and arguably one of the most important for federal employees throughout the civil service – was a provision extending credit for accrued [...]

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Today, President Obama signed the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act. Included in the bill was a provision to repeal the controversial National Security Personnel System (NSPS). The bill also contained several small provisions impacting retirement benefits for the federal workforce. The NSPS provisions in the bill dictate a repeal of the [...]

Oct 23, 2009 The Senate has passed a bill that would end the National Security Personnel System.(NSPS) and make it more difficult to award sole-source contracts. The measure would authorize spending $550.2 billion on Defense Department programs in fiscal 2010. On Oct. 22, the Senate approved the fiscal 2010 National Defense Authorization Act’s conference report [...]

Friday, October 9, 2009 Thursday, the House of Representatives passed the conference report on the FY 2010 Defense Authorization Act, which includes provisions to repeal the National Security Personnel System (NSPS) and convert the over 200,000 employees enrolled under the program back into existing pay systems. The legislation also contains provisions giving retiring employees enrolled [...]