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What is Lab Demo?
In the most general terms, a demonstration project provides a means
for testing and introducing beneficial change in Government-wide
human resources management systems. A Federal agency obtains
the authority from the Office of Personnel Management to waive existing
Federal human resources management law and regulations in title 5,
United States Code, and title 5, Code of Federal Regulations, to
propose, develop, test, and evaluate interventions for its own human
resources management system to effectively manage its civilian workforce
and shape the future of Federal human resource management. The
first of such demonstrations was conducted by the Human
Resources department of the Naval Air Warfare Center at China
Lake, California. Now over twenty years old, that highly successful
personnel demonstration has become a permanent part of China Lake's
human resource management and stands as an example upon which all
other personnel demonstrations have been modeled.
The Air Force Laboratory Personnel Demonstration is the
first of what have been called, "the second generation of
personnel demonstrations." It was authorized under
the 1995 Defense Authorization Act which permits the Secretary
of Defense to conduct personnel demonstration programs "...
generally similar in nature to..." China Lake at all DoD
S&T Reinvention Laboratories.
In particular, the Air Force Laboratory Personnel Demonstration
is a series of initiatives covering the acquisition, sustainment,
separation, and resource allocation of AFRL's professional
civilian workforce. Within the framework of these four
broad areas, fifteen interventions were developed to address
several well-documented and historically sought-after improvements
to the Title-V civilian personnel management system. Of
those fifteen, nine were designated specifically with the
career management of the Laboratory's scientists and engineers
in mind.
Since the Air Force Laboratory Personnel Demonstration was
implemented in 1997, a number of other personnel demonstrations
have begun. For more information on personnel demonstration
projects in general, be sure to visit the OPM
demonstration projects website.
 AFRL
Employee Reverse Feedback (ERF) Program - The
ERF program provides supervisors
with developmental feedback and a training and development
program to enhance their supervisory skills .
 ERF
Survey
Lab
Personnel Demo Points of Contact - AFRL
contacts for Lab Demo functions including Awards, CCS,
Training, Pay Pool management, Project Evaluation,
etc.
AFRL
Lab Demo Training Guide, the "Tan Book"
Part
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Part
2
Appendices
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