Some significant changes are coming soon to the civilian personnel community. Congress voted last fall to abolish the National Security Personnel System and convert those jobs back to General Schedule. The flood gates are about to open as various Air Force organizations begin to convert NSPS personnel to fill the new GS positions.
The news comes as AFSPC adds 900 civilian positions for fiscal year 2011 and 200 of those positions are in headquarters organizations. This creates the “perfect storm” in reducing contract positions, creating GS positions to replace them and converting current NSPS employees to GS — all at the same time.
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