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Navy Pensacola Commands Transitioning from NSPS

Navy NewsStand

Story Number: NNS100730-13
7/30/2010

By Ed Barker, Naval Education and Training Command Public Affairs

PENSACOLA, Fla. (NNS) -- Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola hosted a town hall meeting about the ransition from National Security Personnel System (NSPS) to General Schedule (GS) Transition July 26.

Guest speaker, Department of the Navy Director of Transition Management Tony TorresRamos, explained the transition process with members of Pensacola-area commands, offering civil servants and their civilian and military supervisors an understanding of the transition to the GS system as well as an opportunity to ask questions.

"Reaching out to employees so they have an understanding of the business rules and mechanics of this transition is extremely important," said TorresRamos. "We're working to make sure there are minimal impacts to commands and their employees due to the changes in personnel systems."

The move from NSPS to GS was mandated for all the services by the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). A major component of the NDAA language is that no employee will experience a loss of pay upon transition to the GS personnel system.

With few exceptions, Department of Navy (DoN) employees under NSPS will transition to the GS system by the end of this year. Employees in some scientific research, medical and acquisition positions will transition to other non-GS personnel systems.

The Department of the Navy is using a phased approach for command conversions to the new personnel systems and approximately 25,000 of 72,000 civilians under NSPS have transitioned so far. On board NAS Pensacola, the Naval Education and Training Command (NETC) is scheduled to make the change Sept. 26, and invited TorresRamos to Pensacola to give his presentation in order to educate staff and employees. The Naval Education and Training Command is one of the largest shore commands in the Navy with more than 19,000 military and civilian staff at more than 230 subordinate commands and units.

"We've offered our services to major commands like NETC so they can share the information across their organization," said TorresRamos. "The best way to make this work is by ensuring that employees are engaged and understand the transition process – classification of positions, performance management, pay-setting and the transition schedule. The conversions we've done so far have gone 99 percent without problems."

Following the NAS Pensacola town hall meeting, TorresRamos conducted two virtual town hall meetings for NETC activities outside the Pensacola area. All are part of a DoN-wide effort to engage and communicate with the workforce during the transition.

Employees who converted into NSPS from GS and who have had no significant changes to their position will return to their former GS classifications. National Security Personnel System employees without legacy classifications transitioning to GS positions will have their positions classified and grade assigned according to GS classification rules.

The grade and classification will be based on duties and responsibilities assigned by the supervisor and performed by the employee. Employees will be notified of their GS position classification prior to transitioning out of NSPS.

Additional information on the NSPS to GS transition is available through the DON Civilian Human Resources portal: http://www.public.navy.mil/donhr and questions may be e-mailed to DoNHRFAQ@navy.mil.