After DOD unveiled the National Security Personnel System this week, there are a lot of civilian employees in the department that still have questions, according to the Washington Post. For example, what do the new salary scales look like and where do workers fit in to them? In place of the General Schedule, DOD is putting in occupational groups and within each group are “pay bands” that will take in two or more of the old grades. Details on the new bands and career groups remain under development. Will they surface before the first group of employees get shoved into the new system in February
A Defense Department team is on the ground in Ukraine assessing what the country needs to protect itself from air, naval, electronic, and cyber warfare threats as Russian troops gather on multiple fronts, a senior Ukrainian defense official told Air Force Magazine, describing an emphasis on what assistance can be…