MANAGEMENT OF SPECIALLY QUALIFIED SCIENTIFIC PERSONNEL

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00357R000600080017-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 5, 2000
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• Content Type: REGULATION

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24. MANAGEMENT OF SPECIALLY QUALIFIED SCIENTIFIC PERSONNEL
a. GENERAL. This paragraph prescribes the policy and responsibilities
pertaining to the Agency's personnel management and pay system for
specially qualified personnel assigned to selected scientific
positions associated with high priority national intelligence
requirements.
b. POLICY. It is Agency policy to attract, motivate, and retain
highly competent scientific personnel. Of these, a small percentage
occupies specially designated scientific positions are remunerated
in accordance with a Scientific Pay Schedule (SPS). SPS employees,
specialists in the physical, biological, medical, or engineering
services, occupy one of the following categories of SPS positions:
(1) Scientific advisor to managers of organizations engaged in
either (a) exploratory research for the discovery of new con-
cepts, phenomena, and theories providing the genesis of new
technologies applicable to the intelligence process, (b) ap-
plication of new technological advances in designing, developing,
and fabricating prototype hardware and software systems, equip-
ment, devices, and techniques for intelligence purposes, or
(c) analysis, evaluation, and production of foreign scientific
intelligence responsive to high priority national intelligence
requirements and the shaping of United States,foreign policy.
(2) Team leader, project manager, or first line supervisor respon-
sible for the technical management of research projects of an
office-wide research program as characterized in subparagraph
b(l) above.
(3) Combined position of advisor and technical manager with respon-
sibilities for major scientific programs.
c. DESIGNATION OF SPS. POSITIONS. Each SPS position is designated on
organizational staffing complements by title and occupational code
used for comparable General Schedule (GS) positions, with the
prefix "SPS" but excluding the GS grade level equivalent; e.g.,
Physicist SPS-1310.04-00.
d. PAY RATES. Pay for SPS personnel ranges from the minimum rate
for GS-16 to the highest rate for GS-18. Pay steps for the
Scientific Pay Schedule equate to the GS pay steps for GS-16 through
GS-18 as follows:
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Steps 1 through 4 GS-16, Steps 1 through 4
Steps 5 through 8 GS-17, Steps 1 through 4
Step 9 GS-18
Pay applicable to SPS pay steps will be adjusted automatically
when there are changes in the corresponding GS pay steps.
e. QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT FOR SPS POSITIONS. To be considered
for an SPS position an individual must have broad and significant
experience in the major scientific field related to the position.
The experience may have been obtained in Government, private
industry, academic institutions, and professional societies or
organizations. An individual also must have demonstrated his or -
her ability to either administer scientific programs, conduct
research, or provide consultation of a very high order in the
specialized branch of the scientific field. Additional factors in
the consideration of a candidate for assignment to an SPS position
are academic background, publications, activities in professional
societies, general reputation in the scientific field, and present
salary.
f. ' RESPONSIBILITIES
(1) The Director of Central Intelligence is responsible for:
(a) Establishing SPS position ceilings for the Agency and for
each directorate within the overall Agency s4afif manpower
ceiling authorized each fiscal year by the Congress and
the Office of Management and Budget.
(b) Authorizing increases in the Agency ceiling for SPS
positions with the approval of the Office of Management
and Budget.
(c) Approving the establishment of SPS positions within the
authorized ceiling.
(d) Approving appointments of personnel to SPS status and the
reassignment of SPS personnel between directorates.
(e) Approving promotions from SPS step 4 to step 5 (equivalent
to GS-16/4 and GS-17/1) and from step 8 to step 9
(equivalent to GS-17/4 and GS--18/1).
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(2)
Deputy Directors are responsible for:
(a) Recommending to the Comptroller, as. part of their budget
submissions, estimates of SPS positions and personnel
required for their areas and, when necessary, recommending
any revision to such budget submissions.
(b) Recommending appointments to SPS status and desired pay
steps, through the Director of Personnel, to the Director
of Central Intelligence for approval.
(c) Recommending promotions from SPS step 4 to step 5 and
from step 8 to step 9, through the Director of Personnel,
to the Director of Central Intelligence for approval.
(d) Recommending promotions to SPS steps 2 through 4 and steps
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(e) 'Submitting SPS vacancy reports and SPS personnel reassign-
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(f) Taking effective action to attract, motivate, and retain
competent scientific personnel.
(3) The Director of Personnel is responsible for:
(a) Determining that proposals for SPS positions included in
staffing complements (se are consistent with the
mission and functions of an activity and that personnel
with special scientific qualifications are required at a
level embraced by the Scientific Pay Schedule.
(b) Assisting Deputy Directors in the recruitment and internal
selection of qualified personnel to fill SPS positions.
(c) Documenting and evaluating qualifications of proposed SPS
assignees and SPS candidates for promotion in coordination
with the Deputy Director concerned.
(d) Determining appropriate individual pay steps, placing
emphasis on the qualifications and capabilities of the
individual as they relate to the duties to be performed.
(e) Ensuring that directorate SPS ceilings.are.-not_exceeded.
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(f) Establishing SPS positions on staffing complements upon
approval of the Director of Central Intelligence.
(g) Recommending action to the Director of Central Intelligence
on all appointments and promotions of SRS personnel from
SPS step 4 to step 5 and from step 8 to step 9.
(h) Approving recommendations from Deputy Directors for pro-
motions to SPS steps 2 through 4 and steps 6 through 8,
and processing appropriate personnel actions.
(i) Approving intra-directorate transfers and deletions of
SPS positions and recommending action on inter--directorate
transfers of SPS positions, through the Comptroller, to
the Director of Central Intelligence.
(4) The Comptroller is responsible for:
(a) Reviewing program and budget submission estimates of
scientific personnel requirements to determine consistency
with approved Agency missions, programs,-overall personnel
ceilings, and budget considerations; and in consonance with
the Director of Personnel forwarding recommendations to
the Director of Central Intelligence for increases-in
ceiling for scientific personnel that would be in excess
of the Agency SPS ceiling.
(b) Reviewing requests for reallocation of SPS ceilings be-
tween directorates and forwarding such requests with his
recommendation to the Director of Central Intelligence.
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