Washington, D.C. - Today, OhMyGov!(R) exclusively reported the results of a survey conducted internally by the Pentagon and obtained through a FOIA request. The findings paint a very bleak picture of DoD's new personnel system, the National Security Personnel System (NSPS).

Of the 600 Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) employees who took the survey, a mere 16 percent expressed satisfaction with DoD's new personnel system.

OhMyGov!, the only media company devoted to improving bureaucracy through the spread of information, innovation, and strategic wit, obtained the survey results and summarized them in an article on OhMyGov.com, providing links to the entire survey. The media company plans to release two additional articles about NSPS, along with 60 pages of raw survey comments from DTRA employees, over the coming weeks.

Highlights of the survey include:

- 64 percent of respondents expressed dissatisfaction with NSPS
- Nearly half of respondents were dissatisfied with the performance rating they received
- DTRA employees expressed fear of "vindictive pay pool managers" rating employees based upon favoritism
- Employees expressed anger over artificial ratings that keep the bulk of ratings mediocre, regardless of actual performance
- Only 20 percent of respondents were satisfied with the implementation and administration of NSPS
- 20 percent of respondents believed communication with their supervisors increased under NSPS, compared to 49 percent who thought communication actually diminished
- Half of all employees expressed dissatisfaction with the ratings they received

"This system is a return to the days of the 'good ole boys club,' and graft and corruption are the cornerstone," one DTRA employee declares in the survey's comments section. "As a career federal employee, I'm disgusted. The level of deceit, lack of ethics and integrity that is surfacing under the NSPS is appalling."

"DTRA implemented the pay system in an disempowering way," said one employee who spoke with OhMyGov! on the condition of anonymity. "Low-level supervisors were allowed only to offer recommendations about employee ratings to pay-pool managers, rather than make final judgments."

The survey was administered at DTRA, an agency charged with eliminating WMDs, which was among the first of the Department's agencies to adapt the new personnel system.

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