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English: This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:

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HUMAN CAPITAL: OPM Needs to Improve the Design, Management, and Oversight of the Federal Classification System.

Note: Authorized in 2004 by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004, the National Security Personnel System (NSPS) was a management system for the Department of Defense that was designed to improve efficiency in the performance of civilian personnel management and to be flexible, contemporary, and consistent with the public employment principles of merit and fitness. One component of this system intended to reward agencies' highest performing and most valuable employees. Pub. L. No. 108-136, §§ 1101, 1111, 1126-1129, 117 Stat. 1392, 1621-32, 1634, 1640-45 (Nov. 24, 2003). Over the lifetime of the system, which was repealed in 2010, by the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2010, approximately 226,000 civilian employees were taken off the GS system, put into NSPS, and subsequently returned to the GS system. This accounts for the dip beginning in 2009 in figure 3. Pub. L. 111-84, § 1113, 123 Stat. 2190, 2498-2504, (Oct. 28, 2009).