Just want to say a few things about this pay for performance system that DOD has it in their minds that would be good for us as federal employees.
First, this newly proposed system is not just a standard pay for performance system. It has been so convoluted by the constructors as to not be recognizeable as a pay for performance system. If you have a first line supervisor and he deems his employee to be outstanding and a wonderful worker deserving of a raise for the year, then how can a pay pool manage then decide to reduce the amount of raise given this individual? It will not be funded to an appropriate amount to be able to give all individuals at least a minimum raise.
Secondly, why, when we depend wholeheartedly on teamwork and sharing of all information with each other to keep our troops safe and with up to date weaponry in their hands, would we want to pit each member of these teams against each other for their raises each year. What you do is take the loyalty to the mission and support of our troops and redirect it towards an individual supervisor who holds the power to give you a raise that year or not.
The third and most important fact is that with all new regulations that have been foisted upon the federal employees in the last thirty one years I have worked for them, there is never enough training for either the employees or the supervisors to allow them to fully understand the system before employing it. Mind you that these are the same individuals that have screwed up the present system to the point that DOD would rather scrap the current system for a new, more difficult to administer system.
That is why, within the federal workforce, this pay for performance system will not work.