More on John James, The Man Responsible For Rolling Back NSPS

After we published my story on the appointment of Navy career executive John H. James to head the office that will be responsible for repealing the National Security Personnel System, a couple of other folks sent in reactions to the announcement or recollections of James. From Darryl Perkinson, president of the Federal Managers Association:

"The mention of John James as the NSPS Transition lead is welcome. Mr. James has been a guest of the Federal Managers Association nationally and locally at Norfolk Naval Shipyard for key events. His expertise and demeanor have always been well respected in the NAVSEA community. It is assuring that he will lead the transition since his reputation of being professional and fair is well known. I personally have spoken with him on several occasions and been deeply impressed by his knowledge."

And William Dougan, president of the National Federation of Federal Employees and chair of the Federal Workers Alliance had thoughts on the rollback:

"We are pleased to see DoD establish a transition office. It shows that the agency is committed to doing the transition out of NSPS right. The more internal accountability there is, the better off the department and all the workers going through the transition are going to be. We look forward to working with the NSPSTO on a department-wide performance management system. There is a lot of room for improvement throughout the agency in the area of performance management. We expect involvement in the design and implementation of the performance management system. We hope that the NSPSTO will make certain that new hires at DoD are not being enrolled into NSPS. The way we see it, with the conversion out of NSPS begun, DoD should be done hiring into NSPS. Putting new employees into NSPS at this point is unnecessary."