MANAGEMENT OF SPECIALLY QUALIFIED SCIENTIFIC PERSONNEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00357R000600080020-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 5, 2000
• Sequence Number: 20
• 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
'competent scientific personnel. The provisions of a management.
and pay system providing for a Scientific Pay Schedule (SPS) and
specially designated SPS positions are applicable to a small
percentage of these personnel. SPS employees are specialists in
the physical, biological, medical, or engineering sciences, and
occupy one of the followings PS positions:
(1)
Scientific advisor to the managers of organizations that
engage in either (a) exploratory research toward the discovery
of new concepts, phenomena, and theories that provide the
genesis of new technologies applicable to the intelligence
process, (b) applying w technological advances in the
design, development, and fabrication of prototype hardware and
software systems, equipment, devices, and techniques for in-
telligence purposes, or (c) analy ing-, evaluating and producing
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(2) Team leader, project manager, or first line supervisor respon-
sible for the technical management of research projects within
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(3) Combined position of advisor and technical manager with respon-
sibilities for major scientific programs.
c. DESIGNATION OF SPS POSITIONS. Each SPS position v&_ll.e designated
on organizational staffing complements by the 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. The pay range for SPS personnel will be from the
minimum rate for GS-16 to the highest rate for GS-18. Pay steps
within the Scientific Pay Schedule will be equated with pay steps
for GS-16 through GS-18 --i a?tated-be-lew:
Scientific Pay Schedule General Schedule
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 sus wild be adjusted automatically
when there are changes in the corresponding GS pay steps.
e. QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR SPS POSITIONS. Individuals considered
for SPS positions must have had broad and significant experience
in the major scientific field related to these positions. Such
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experience may have been obtained in Government, private industry,
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academic institutions( professional societies,or organ fza~tionss, soi
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4 actors to be.considered for assignment to an SPS position are
academic background, publications of thee,. 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 staff 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 to 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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RESPONSIBILITIES OF DEPUTY DIRECTORS. Deputy Directors will
(1) recommend to the Comptroller estimates of SPS positions and
personnel required for their respective areas as a part of
budget submissions and, when necessary, recommend any revision
thereto;
(2) recommend appointments to SPS status with desired salary rates,
through the Director of Personnel, to the Director of Central
Intelligence for approval;
(3) recommend 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;
(4) recommend promotions to SPS steps 2 through 4 and 6 through 8
and submit to the Director of Personnel for approval and pro-
cessing;
(5) submit SPS vacancy reports and SPS personnel reassignment
proposals to the CIA Supergrade Review Panel
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(6) take effective action to attract, motivate and retain competent
scientific personnel.
h. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE DIRECTOR OF PERSONNEL. The Director of
Personnel will
(1) determine that proposals for SPS positions included in staffing
complements are consistent with the mission
and functions of an activity and require personnel with special
scientific qualifications of a level embraced by the salary
structure of the Scientific Pay Schedule;
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(2) assist Deputy Directors in the recruitment and internal
selection of qualified personnel to fill SPS positions;
(3) document and evaluate the qualifications of proposed SPS
assignees and SPS candidates for promotion in coordination
with the appropriate Deputy Director;
(4) determine appropriate individual pay rates, placing emphasis
on the qualifications and capabilities of the individual as
they relate to the scope and responsibility of duties to be
performed;
(5) ensure that the Directorate SPS ceilings are not exceeded;
(6) establish SPS positions on staffing complements upon approval
of the Director of Central Intelligence;
(7) recommend action to the Director of Central Intelligence on
all appointments and promotions of SPS personnel from SPS
step 4 to step 5 and from step 8 to step 9;
(8) approve promotions to SPS steps 2 through 4 and steps 6
through 8, submitted by Deputy Directors, and process appro-
priate actions;
(9) approve intra-Directorate transfers and deletions of SPS
positions, and recommend action on inter-Directorate transfers
of SPS positions to the DCI through the Comptroller.
i. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE COMPTROLLER. The Comptroller will
(1) review, 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
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forward recommendations to the DCI for increases in ceiling
for scientific personnel which would be in excess of the
Agency SPS ceiling;
(2) review requests for reallocation of SPS ceiling between
Directorates and forward such requests with his recomendation
to the DCI.
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