Welcome to FMA’s NSPS Action Center!

Here you will find all of the latest news and information regarding the National Security Personnel System (NSPS) and FMA's efforts to protect the interests of all civil servants who have served or continue to serve under the system.

Background Information on FMA and NSPS:

Enactment of the fiscal year 2010 National Defense Authorization Act (P.L. 111-84) signified the end of the controversial NSPS pay-for-performance system, but it marked only the beginning of a long, tenuous process of determining how to manage the 226,000 federal employees who serve under the system. As Department of Defense (DOD) officials begin the transition out of NSPS, the Federal Managers Association (FMA), which represents the interests of managers and supervisors in 35 agencies across the federal government including DOD, remains vigilant and stands by its commitment to ensure no civil servants are negatively impacted in an unjust manner during this transition.

We at FMA believe aggressive steps must be taken to protect the interests of the DOD civilians who labored and succeeded under a system they did not ask to be a part of and who may be adversely impacted by a conversion back to their previous personnel systems. Below is a list of major concerns and recommendations we believe DOD must address to ensure these hardworking, high performing civil servants retain the compensation to which they are entitled.

FMA National President Patricia Niehaus takes concerns
to NSPS Transition Office Director John James.

FMA NSPS Position Paper

Contact Your Members of Congress Today!

Latest FMA News Regarding NSPS:

FMA National President Patricia Niehaus discusses NSPS transition, FMA testimony with Federal News Radio. Click here to listen.

FMA Presents NSPS Transition Concerns Before Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee of Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia

FMA National President Patricia Niehaus Takes NSPS Concerns to House and Senate (Senate Letter Attached)

FMA Government Affairs Director Jessica Klement Discusses NSPS on FederalNewsRadio

FMA Releases NSPS Position Paper

NSPS in the Media:

Raises at issue as pay system for defense employees changes (Wash. Post)

Workers worried that transition from NSPS could hurt them down the road (Wash. Post)

Concerns over pay loom as Pentagon returns to General Schedule (Government Executive )

Almost half of NSPS employees to be in new pay plans by June (Federal Times)

168,000 DoD employees may transfer to new pay system by September (Federal Times)

Managers group blasts Pentagon for plan to lower pay raises (Federal Times)