Science office updates its performance review board members
Published Date: 2/12/2025
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Summary
The Office of Science and Technology Policy announced the new members of its Performance Review Board, which helps decide performance ratings and bonuses for top leaders. This team, made up mostly of career pros from health and justice departments, will serve from now until January 2027. If you’re a senior executive, these changes could affect your pay and reviews over the next two years.
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New SES Performance Review Board
If you are a Senior Executive Service (SES) employee at the Office of Science and Technology Policy, a newly announced Performance Review Board (PRB) will review and make recommendations about performance appraisals, ratings, bonuses, pay adjustments, and other personnel actions. The membership is effective on the date this notice was published in the Federal Register (February 12, 2025) and runs through January 2027. The Board will include at least three members, with more than half being career appointees, and the named members are drawn mainly from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice.
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