Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday signed a memorandum to all Protection Division civilian workers directing them to arrange 5 bullet factors detailing their work accomplishments from the prior week.
On Monday, March 3, those self same workers can count on an e mail from the Protection Division requesting that very same data, he wrote. Inside 48 hours they’re anticipated to answer to that e mail, with their accomplishments included, and add their supervisors as recipients.
The responses, Hegseth mentioned in a video assertion launched at present, shall be consolidated internally inside the division in an effort to fulfill associated directives from the Workplace of Personnel Administration.
Final weekend, OPM despatched a request for a similar data, however the division’s Workplace of Personnel and Readiness advised workers to face down on the request. Now that the division has labored with OPM to get extra clear steerage on what is predicted, Hegseth mentioned workers can begin writing their submissions.
“The Division of Protection initially paused this directive … however now requires all DOD civilian workers to submit 5 bullets on their earlier week’s achievements,” Hegseth mentioned in his memorandum.
In accordance with steerage from the secretary, it’s an e mail from the Protection Division workers ought to reply to. That e mail will come Monday, and responses to it shouldn’t embrace categorised or delicate data. Moreover, Hegseth mentioned in his memorandum, non-compliance might result in additional evaluation.
Civilian workers who won’t have e mail entry within the 48 hours following supply of the e-mail on account of being on depart, shift work or different causes, are to finish the request inside 48 hours of regaining entry, the secretary wrote.
Moreover, civilian workers who don’t sometimes have e mail entry will work with their supervisors to satisfy the request.
In his video assertion to the civilian workforce, Hegseth mentioned civilian workers are necessary to the division’s mission, and that submitting 5 bullet factors about their work will assist that.
“Our civilian patriots who dedicate themselves to defending this nation working for the Division of Protection are crucial to our nationwide safety,” he mentioned in his video assertion. “As we work to revive deal with DOD’s core warfighting mission below President Trump’s management, we acknowledge that we can’t accomplish that mission with out the robust and necessary contributions of our civilian workforce.”
