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programs applicable to the intelligence community…” 15 President George W. Bush signed the IRTPA into law in December 2004. Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission In February 2004, President Bush signed an Executive Order creating the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, more widely known as the WMD Commission. 16 The commission studied the intelligence failures that led to the IC’s conclusions prior to the March 2003 initiation of Operation Iraqi Freedom that Iraq had been developing WMDs. The WMD Commission recommended that the DNI establish a central HR authority for the IC; create a uniform system for performance evaluations and compensation; develop a more comprehensive and creative set of performance incentives; direct a “joint” personnel rotation system; and establish a National Intelligence University. 17 National Intelligence Civilian Compensation Program Based on guidance provided by the 9/11 and WMD Commissions, the ODNI developed a Strategic Human Capital Plan in 2006 that identified the major challenges to building a strong IC human resources program. These challenges included: • Hyper-competition in the war for talented employees’ • Insufficient diversity as the IC did not keep pace with the nation’s increasingly diverse civilian labor force; • An imbalanced workforce where years of tight budgets and constrained hiring resulted in disproportionate concentrations of employees within two groups: relatively new (post- 9/11) recruits and retirement-eligible employees; • Generation gaps with new hires seeking a different balance between work and family, job and career; and • Competition with contractors that recruit IC employees, then “lease” them back to the federal government at considerably greater expense. ODNI officials concluded that the GS pay system, created in the 1940s, was inadequate to meet the challenges that the IC now faced. Among other things, ODNI believed that the IC workforce had changed significantly since the system did not align with modern notions of performancebased compensation. Clerks who rarely changed jobs or positions had been replaced by highly skilled and specialized knowledge workers who were more mobile. Further, the GS system 15 Ibid. 16 Executive Order 13328, Feb. 6, 2004. 17 The Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. Report to the President of the United States, Mar. 31, 2005, p. 321,. 10
ewarded longevity over performance and pay increases were delayed as employees built time within grade. 18 In cooperation with Cabinet departments and agencies with authority to establish pay systems for IC employees, ODNI began to design an overarching framework that moved away from the GS system and toward more performance-based systems. The resulting pay modernization framework had two fundamental elements at its core: • Performance Management. Setting and communicating employee performance objectives, continually monitoring performance, providing feedback, and recognizing the accomplishment of individual and organizational goals and objectives. • Performance-Based Pay. Higher performance and greater contributions to the IC would result in higher pay potential based on key components, including broad pay bands, three specific work categories, and several work levels within each work category. As noted previously, NGA operated under a performance-based compensation program since 1999. This model would prove to be an exemplar for the new framework developed by the ODNI-led pay modernization effort. The IC agencies adopted that framework, the National Intelligence Civilian Compensation Program (NICCP), to guide their individual efforts. The following chart identifies the IC agencies and the names of their respective Pay Modernization programs based on the framework: Figure 2-1. IC Pay Modernization Effort Source: Office of the Director of National Intelligence 18 National Intelligence Civilian Compensation Program. Intelligence Community (IC) Pay Modernization Key Facts. PowerPoint briefing, May 15, 2008. 11
Page 1 and 2: A Report by a Panel of the NATIONAL
Page 3 and 4: FOREWORD The terrorist attacks of S
Page 5 and 6: TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD.........
Page 7 and 8: Governance ........................
Page 9 and 10: ACRONYMS Academy CWB DCIPS DIA DIHR
Page 11 and 12: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The terrorist att
Page 13 and 14: • It is too soon to draw conclusi
Page 15 and 16: CHAPTER 1 BACKGROUND, METHODOLOGY A
Page 17 and 18: • The adequacy of the training, p
Page 19 and 20: • Chapter 6: The Way Forward for
Page 21 and 22: CHAPTER 2 THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT FO
Page 23: National intelligence is still orga
Page 27 and 28: OTHERS FACTORS THAT IMPACTED DCIPS
Page 29 and 30: • Partisan politics could play an
Page 31 and 32: Administration (TSA), which operate
Page 33 and 34: NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT
Page 35 and 36: CHAPTER 3 ASSESSING DCIPS’ DESIGN
Page 37 and 38: FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING DCIPS’ DE
Page 39 and 40: Figure 3-1. Objectives of the NICCP
Page 41 and 42: PRINCIPLE The system is transparent
Page 43 and 44: The Defense Intelligence Enterprise
Page 45 and 46: discourage teamwork…to the organi
Page 47 and 48: Figure 3-2. DCIPS 2010 Pay Band Str
Page 49 and 50: enable managers and supervisors to
Page 51 and 52: they achieve their goals. Given the
Page 53 and 54: Element Definition Supervisory/Mana
Page 55 and 56: cooperation with ODNI. The review w
Page 57 and 58: Source: OUSD(I) Human Capital Manag
Page 59 and 60: eplaces the current government-wide
Page 61 and 62: esults, but the final DCIPS evaluat
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Page 65 and 66: HOW DCIPS COMPARES TO THE GS/GG SYS
Page 67 and 68: Table 3-7. Comparison of DCIPS and
Page 69 and 70: Design Feature DCIPS NSPS quality s
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Table 4-1. Overview of the OPM Obje
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In the DCIPS context, “leaders”
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intelligence component would do so.
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• Credible, timely, and original
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Finding 4-5 The DCIPS website and R
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Finding 4-6 The lack of a communica
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No training needs assessments have
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pay pool exercises to be helpful an
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• The Commerce Department used fo
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3. Implementing DCIPS; 4. Evaluatin
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created a separate document for som
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lack of an overall change strategy
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changed and by whom. 149 This appea
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How pay pools are constructed and w
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DCIPS survey results indicate that
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CONCLUSIONS The Panel finds that a
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CHAPTER 5 ASSESSING DCIPS’ IMPACT
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• Disincentives to become a super
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employees received performance rati
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Figure 5-1. DCIPS Interim Array of
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Table 5-1. NGA Indices and Comparat
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of implementation. Nonetheless, OUS
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CHAPTER 6 THE WAY FORWARD FOR DCIPS
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OUSD(I) has advised the Panel that
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CHAPTER 7 PANEL RECOMMENDATIONS Bas
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• Clarify and strengthen its guid
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Recommendation 23. OUSD(I) should d
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APPENDIX B APPENDIX A PANEL AND STA
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APPENDIX B Committee on U.S. Nation
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APPENDIX B PARTICIPATING INDIVIDUAL
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Michael Jackson*—President and Fo
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Defense Intelligence Agency Kendrea
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APPENDIX C APPENDIX C BIBLIOGRAPHY
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APPENDIX C Langbein, L. “The impa
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APPENDIX D APPENDIX D MERIT SYSTEMS
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APPENDIX D (10) Discriminating agai
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APPENDIX E APPENDIX E DCIPS PERFORM
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APPENDIX E EMPLOYEE NAME: _________
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APPENDIX E EMPLOYEE NAME: _________
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APPENDIX F APPENDIX F OPEN FORUM LO
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APPENDIX G APPENDIX G MITRE’S PER
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