The National Security Personnel System (NSPS): An Assessment

Abstract

As a vital component of the Department of Defense (DOD), the civilian workforce must become a more relevant contributor to the 21st century strategic requirements and national security strategy. Effectively integrating DOD's civilian workforce into the Total Force is of great importance as DOD transforms to meet an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world. Implementation of NSPS is a major reform effort to transform DOD's civilian workforce to better recruit, retain, and mange its nearly 700,000 person civilian workfdrce No one denies the importance of such an undertaking, yet there is a dearth of NSPS analysis from an historical and theoretical framework. The purpose of this paper is to bridge that gap, for the success or failure of NSPS to transform DOD's civilian workforce into a flexible 21st century entity of the Total Force because it is of great importance to future U.S. national security strategy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 18, 2008
Accession Number
ADA480132

Entities

People

  • Stanley M. Brown

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

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  • Human Systems

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  • Business Administration
  • Civilian Personnel
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Government Employees
  • Governments
  • Human Resources
  • Management Personnel
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Security
  • Security Personnel
  • Social Sciences
  • Strategic Communications
  • War Colleges

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