Taps for the National Security Personnel System

As of this Sunday, the National Security Personnel System is officially defunct.

In a Federal Register notice published today, the Office of Personnel Management and the Defense Department report that they are repealing the regulations accompanying the controversial pay-for-performance system effective Jan. 1. The repeal is basically just housekeeping; the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act ended the legal authority for the NSPS and declared that any existing regs would be toast by the beginning of 2012.

Should anyone need a refresher on what the very long-running flap was about, incidentally, this Federal Times article offers a good recap.