American forces press service (April 27, 2005): DoD seeking 'demonstration authority' for changes to officer management.WASHINGTON -- Defense officials are requesting that Congress give the department permission to experiment with some changes to officer personnel management. Officials have requested "demonstration authority" to test changes in compensation, promotions, and retention in four limited categories of military officers--Army foreign area officers, Navy engineering officers, Navy aviation engineering duty officers, and Navy acquisition officers--explained Bill Carr William ("Bill") Arthur Carr (October 24, 1909 – January 14, 1966) was an American athlete, a double Olympic champion in 1932. Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Carr studied at Mercersburg Academy and the University of Pennsylvania, where he was coached by 1904 Olympian , acting deputy under secretary of defense for military personnel policy. Carr CARR Carrier CARR Customer Acceptance Readiness Review CARR Carrollton Railroad CARR Corrective Action Request and Report CARR City Area Rural Rides (Texas) CARR Configuration Audit Readiness Review CARR Customer Acceptance Requirements Review explained that the war on terrorism Terrorist acts and the threat of Terrorism have occupied the various law enforcement agencies in the U.S. government for many years. The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, as amended by the usa patriot act has brought to light limitations to officer personnel management that officials just hadn't contemplated. Yet military leaders and congressional oversight Congressional Oversight refers to oversight by the United States Congress of the Executive Branch, including the numerous U.S. federal agencies. Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report for Congress[1] Congressional Oversight committees are wary of implementing sweeping changes without proof that the changes would work. "One way to ... see if you can test some transformational ideas before you go online full time is to try a demonstration authority," he said during a media roundtable in his Pentagon Pentagon Huge five-sided building (1941–43) in Arlington, Va., that is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense. Designed by George Edwin Bergstrom, it was, on its completion, the world's largest office building, covering 34 acres (14 hectares) and offering office earlier this month. The Office of Management and Budget The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), formerly the Bureau of the Budget, is an agency of the federal government that evaluates, formulates, and coordinates management procedures and program objectives within and among departments and agencies of the Executive Branch. has approved the demonstration plan, and the Defense Department's request for this authority now lies with Congress. The military faces unique personnel challenges because the manpower pool is "bottom-fed," Carr said. "We grow from the bottom. We recruit at year one and then [personnel] grow up." This is different from government and private-sector civilian organizations who allow lateral entry at any point up or down the scale. "If we did that, it would open up a whole range of options that we don't have. The reason we don't do it is as much cultural as it is pragmatic," Carr said. "To earn the right to supervise soldiers, one must have grown up as a soldier, and that's held ... as a part of the military ethos e·thos n. The disposition, character, or fundamental values peculiar to a specific person, people, culture, or movement: "They cultivated a subversive alternative ethos" Anthony Burgess. ." Officials have had demonstration authority to experiment with federal-civilian personnel policies for several years. Civilian demonstration programs are generally limited to a fairly small group of individuals, but the authority to do so for such programs "pretty much says you may waive To intentionally or voluntarily relinquish a known right or engage in conduct warranting an inference that a right has been surrendered. For example, an individual is said to waive the right to bring a tort action when he or she renounces the remedy provided by law for such law as it relates to promotion and pay and other major variables, and you can determine whether or not a new approach would be more effective," Carr said. Defense officials are simply requesting the same flexibility to test changes to policies governing military officers, he said. "Nobody is more interested in holding down manpower costs than is the Defense Department, and nobody is more interested in readiness than is the Defense Department," Carr said. "We're saying, 'Empower us so that we can experiment with good ideas and offer you provably good ideas.'" |
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