UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00317A000100020044-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1998
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UNITE' STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
Approved For Release 2006/03/16: CIA-RDP79-00317A00(},1 R PE5
Physicist, GS-5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
For all grades A or B is required :
A. A full 4-year course, in an accredited col-
lege or university, leading to a bachelor's de-
gree. This study must have included courses
in physics consisting of lectures, recitations,
and appropriate. practical laboratory work to-
taling 24 semester hours; or
B. Courses in physics, in an accredited col-
lege or university, consisting of lectures, reci-
tations and appropriate practical laboratory
work totaling 24 semester hours; plus addi-
tional appropriate experience or education
which when combined with the 24 semester
hours in physics will total 4 years of education
and experience and give the applicant a tech-
nical and professional knowledge comparable
to that which would have been acquired through
the successful completion of the 4-year college
course described in A.
In either A or B above, the courses must have
included a fundamental course in general phys-
ics and, in addition, courses in any two of the
following : electricity and magnetism, heat,
light, mechanics, modern physics, sound.
All these courses must have been acceptable
for credit toward the completion of a standard
4-year professional curriculum leading to a
bachelor's degree at an accredited college or
university, and must have been taught in the
department of physics or be acceptable to that
department as courses in physics toward meet-
ing the institution's requirements for a major
in physics. -
In addition, applicants must have had pro-
fessional experience in physics as follows :
Total
Specialized
(years)
(years)
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For GS-7, the professional experience must
have involved the use of the principles of theo-
retical or applied physics in the solution of
scientific problems.
For GS-9, the experience must have been pro-
gressive and must have included 1 year of re-
search or scientific investigative work in a spe-
cialized branch of physics. For GS-11, the experience must have been'.
responsible and progressive and must have in-
cluded 2 years of difficult and important re-
search or scientific investigative work in a
specialized branch of physics. The experience
must have demonstrated initiative, resourceful-
ness, and ability to perform very difficult work
under only general supervision.
For GS-12, the experience must have been
broad, progressive, and responsible and must
have included 2 years which demonstrated either
ability to organize, direct, and coordinate re-
search or other similar difficult work of an im-
portant character in a specialized branch of
physics, or marked capacity for original re-
search in a specialized branch of physics.
For GS-13, ]fl, and 15, the experience must
have been broad, progressive, responsible, and
must have included 2 years of very important
and responsible work in a specialized branch
of physics. The total experience must have
shown the following :
For GS-13: A thorough and wide knowledge
of the principles of physics and their applica-
tion and either (a) ability of a high order in
the organization, direction, and coordination of
important research or other comparable activi-
ties in physics, or (b) productive research in
physics demonstrating by inventions, new
theory developed or extended, or published
scientific documents that the applicant is a per-
son of marked attainment in the scientific world.
For GS-14: A comprehensive knowledge of
the principles of physics and their application,
and either (a) ability of a very high order in
the organization, direction, and coordination of
research or other comparable activities in
physics of major importance, or (b) productive
research in physics demonstrating by invention,
now theory developed or extended, or through
published scientific documents that the appli-
cant who has achieved widespread recognition
in the scientific world.
For GS-15: A comprehensive knowledge of
the principles of physics and their application
(Continued)
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and either (a) ability of a very high order in
planning, organizing, directing, and coordinat-
ing research or other comparable activities in
physics of major importance and magnitude,
and administrative leadership of outstanding
character, or (b) productive research of a very
high order in physics resulting in important
contributions to the fundamental knowledge of
the field in which engaged, and recognition as an
outstanding authority in the scientific world.
For eligibility at GS-9 and above, 6 months of
the experience in a specialized branch of physics
must have been at a level of difficulty and re-
sponsibility comparable to work of the next
lower grade in this series.
For those positions in any grade involving
highly complicated or fundamental scientific
research or similar difficult scientific duties,
selection may be restricted to those eligibles
who show the successful completion of a full
college education in an accredited college or
university including the courses in physics
specified above.
Substitution : Graduate study in physics suc-
cessfully completed. in an accredited college or
university may be substituted for the profes-
sional experience prescribed up to a maximum
of 21/2 years of experience.
Successfully completed study fully equivalent
to the requirements for a master's degree may
be substituted for the professional experience
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required for GS-7. Such study when combined
with- (a) 1 year of professional experience, or
(b) 6 months of professional experience at the
GS-7 level, or (c) an additional year of gradu-
ate study, each in the appropriate field, will
meet the experience requirements for GS-9.
To substitute graduate study for 21/; years of
experience, applicants must have successfully
completed all requirements for the Ph. D. degree
including the thesis. This study may meet
the experience requirements for GS-41, For
GS-12 and above, this Ph. D study may be sub-
stituted for 21/2 years of experience including 1
year of the specialized experience, but appli-
cants must also show 1 year of specialized expe-
rience, including the 6 months of experience
required at a level comparable to that of the
next lower grade.
One year of college-level teaching of profes-
sional grade in physics, when not accompanied
by research, may be substituted for 6 months
only of general experience. When such teach-
ing is accompanied by a reasonable amount of
scientific research or consulting work in an ap-
priate specialization of physics, it may be sub-
stituted year for year for any amount of the
required experience of any grade, provided it
is shown that all other requirements for the
grade under consideration have been met.
Age for GS-5: 18-35.
See part ?L, Physical Regwirement8, para-
graph 4.
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QUALIFICATION STANDARDS
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Physical Science Administrator, CS-11, 12, 13, 14, 15
A, B, or C is required :
A. Successful completion of a 4-year course
leading to a bachelor's degree at an accredited
college or university. This study must have
included a full college major (as defined by the
college attended) in a field of physical science
or in mathematics or have led to a bachelor's
degree in engineering.
B. Four years of successful, progressive,
scientific, or technical experience in a field of
physical science, mathematics, or engineering.
The character, difficulty, and variety of the
tasks performed must have demonstrated a
working knowledge of the theory and applica-
tion of the scientific principles of one of these
fields. This experience must show an under-
standing of the field comparable in scope to that
which would have been acquired through suc-
cessful completion of the college course as
described above.
C. Any time-equivalent combination of A
and B above. However, for each year of educa-
tion accepted, it must be shown that the educa-
tional courses contained at least one fourth of
the semester hour requirements for the full
major in the field. The education and experi-
ence to be combined must be in the same general
field of science or engineering.
In addition, applicants must have 3 years of
broad, responsible, and progressive professional
experience in physical. science. (Mathematics
and engineering are considered physical sci-
ences.) This experience must show a thorough
and wide knowledge of the principles of a phys-
ical science and their application. This experi-
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ence must have included 1 year for GS-11, and
2 years for the higher grades, of experience
in an administrative capacity involving :
(a) the planning, advising on, directing, and
coordinating of the work of other scientists or
engineers when such advice, direction, and co-
ordination require a broad knowledge of the
theory, scientific principles, terminology, and
techniques of the physical sciences involved; the
preparation or review of technical reports or
papers on research, engineering, or technologi-
cal projects in physical science; and the respon-
sibility for the formulation, recommendations,
or execution of operating policies; or
(b) the negotiation or administration of con-
tracts relating to scientific research and requir-
ing a thorough knowledge of the theory, scien-
tific principles, terminology, and techniques of
the physical sciences involved. This adminis-
trative experience must have been progressive
in difficulty, responsibility, and importance to
a degree consistent with the duties of the grade
of the position for which eligibility is being
assigned and must have included 1 year of ex-
pexience which was on a level of difficulty and
responsibility comparable to that of the next
lower grade in this series.
The total experience must show the possession
of the following abilities and attainments :
For GS-11: Technical and administrative
competence in the successful solution of prob-
lems connected with the administration of re-
search, or work of similar scope and difficulty,
in the physical sciences.
For GS-12: A high degree of technical and
administrative competence in the original suc-
cessful solution of complex and difficult tech-
nical and administrative problems connected
with research, or work of similar scope and dif-
ficulty, in the physical sciences.
For GS-13: Demonstrated ability of a high
order in the organization, direction, and co-
ordination of important research, or other ac-
tivities of similar scope and difficulty, in the
physical sciences.
For GS-14: Demonstrated ability of a very
high order in the organization, direction, and
coordination of research of major importance,
or other activities of similar scope and difficulty,
in the physical sciences.
For GS-15: Outstanding ability in planning,
organizing, directing, and coordinating re-
search of major importance and magnitude, or
other activities of similar scope and difficulty,
in the physical sciences.
Substitution : Graduate study, which is fully
equivalent to the requirements of a master's
degree in a physical science, mathematics, or
engineering, successfully completed at an ac-
credited college or university, may be substi-
tuted for 1 year of general experience. A
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Ph. D. degree in physical science, mathematics, of the prescribed administrative experience for
or engineering at an accredited college or uni- any grade.
versity may be substituted for 2 years of the See part 9, Physical Recudreni.ents, para-
general experience for the GS-11 grade. Grad- graph 3. In addition, applicants must possess
uate study may not be substituted for any part emotional and mental stability.
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