Download or read book A Review of the Department of Defense's National Security Personnel System written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2003, the Congress authorized the Secretary of Defense to establish a human resources management system, the National Security Personnel System (NSPS), within the Department of Defense (DoD).1 That system was authorized at the request of DoD, which had complained of inflexibilities in the traditional federal personnel system.2 The department claimed that with its constraining rules in hiring, assigning, compensating, and rewarding employees, the traditional system was cumbersome even during normal peacetime operations; during wartime, when the system faced additional stresses, it was more problematic. According to senior DoD officials, civilian employees an integral resource in the global war on terrorism would be more valuable if the human resources system were more "modern, flexible, and agile."