Not even close..................the new DOD NSPS will save the goverment money in the long run as evry year people will be getting nice bonuses instead of pay raises...........hence the retirement will be less.
Also it gives the goverment a way of getting rid of the drones.
Remember, though, you have career government guys implementing this stuff (this is both NSPS AND DCIPS). The decent workers are leaving in droves while the drones stay where they are. It changes nothing, sadly. The only real advantage: masking everybody's pay so you can't track it against the General Schedule.
Everything is subjective in the new system. You, as an employee, decide what you're going to do over the year (objectives, which take up a lot of time in addition to your day-to-day duties just to write and refine), and then you tie up your supervisor's time going over said objectives. There's a mid-year review, where objectives can be shifted to meet organizational goals if the employee isn't keeping up, and then the final closeout for the year is the only time you can challenge your rating of record.
And as for yearly bonuses, those go away within a year. The LRAs were more of a raise than the old 3-6-9 system.
It's going to be more of a waste to implement the system than it is just to change the rules. That's where the problem lies.
