This paper serves to analyze the National Security Personnel System (NSPS) and how unions feel about the new system.
In order to fully evaluate the NSPS it is important to briefly describe it and compare it to the system that is currently in place. The NSPS was created from the National Defense Authorization Act in 2003 as a way to "establish a flexible and contemporary system, consistent with statutory merit principles and prohibitions against prohibited personnel practices for managing the Department of Defense human capital." (Federal Register, 2005). …
