CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND THE PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CAREER SERVICE

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• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 1, 2006
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: May 7, 1970
• Content Type: MF

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NPIC/D 130-70
7 MAY 1G70
NEMORAN]U4 FOR: NPIC Personnel
SUBJECT : Career Development and the Photographic
Interpretation Career Service
1. The Executive Director and the NPIC Career Service Board have
reviewed the organization, responsibilities and functions of the Photo-
graphic Interpretation Career Service Board, the two Competitive Evalu-
ation Panels and the Training Selection Panel. The Executive Director
has recommended and I have approved certain changes which are described
below. These changes are incorporated in NPIC Instruction No. 20-4 of
4 May 1970.
2. The important changes which have been made are:
a. Establishment of Career Panels in IEG, PP$BS, PSG, and
TSSG chaired by the Group or Staff Chief and including as members
the Division or Deputy Division Chiefs of that organization. The
Career Panels will review all career development and personnel
actions--promotions, training, reassignments, etc.--concerning the
CIA personnel of the respective Components. The Group or Staff
thief, with the advice of his Career Panel, is authorized to can-
plete or review competitive Evaluation Ratings, select applicants,
and approve promotions to grades GS-12 and below, and to review
and recommend approval to the Head of the Career Service of other
personnel actions. The Career Panels will report to the NPIC
Career Service Board on all approved actions.
b. NPIC Competitive Evaluation Panels A and B have been
eliminated and responsibility placed on respective supervisors
to competitively evaluate their personnel in grades GS-09 through
GS-14. The appropriate Career Panels will review and approve all
ratings. Separate areas of competition have been established be-
cause of the different occupational groups and functional lines
of work.
c. The NPIC Career Service Board, chaired by the Executive
Director, will continue to be responsible for policies and programs
relevant to career development and other personnel matters through-
out the Center. Promotions and other recommended actions concern-
ing CIA personnel in the grades of GS-12, GS-13, and GS-14 will be
referred by the Career Panels to the NPIC Career Service Board for
final review and recommendation to the Head of the Career Service.
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SUBJECT : Career Development and the Photographic
Interpretation Career Service
3. These changes are intended to focus the responsibility and the
authority for management of career development closer to the points in
the Center's organization where specific career development actions--
promotions, training, awards, reassignments, etc.--can most knowledge-
ably be accomplished or initiated. In other words, career development
is a function of effective management, and effective management is
created through the actions of the Center's line supervisors--branch,
division, and group chiefs.
4. The Career Service Board--chaired by the Executive Director
and including the Group and Staff Chiefs as members--will provide the
direction to ensure that compatible, equitable and productive career
development procedures are used throughout the Center.
ARTHUR C. LUNDAHL
Director
National Photographic Interpretation Center
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