Defense Department begins new employee performance rating system

The Washington Post (online registration required): The Defense Department on Friday will begin another overhaul of how it evaluates its civilian federal employees, this time with the support of employee unions whose opposition doomed the previous program.

The first stage of the new Defense Performance Management and Appraisal Program involves about 15,000 employees at a dozen relatively small components and headquarters functions, including several in the national capital area. Over the next two years, the large majority of the 750,000 employees in the Defense Department civilian workforce will have their performance rated under that system.

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