Pay-for-performance plan (surprise!) subject to racism. At that was at the Pentagon.
Reporting on a Pentagon study in the Washington Post:
One big problem with the NSPS (National Security Personnel System) version of pay for performance was how, and by whom, employees’ performances were evaluated. Evaluations determined their pay. In his prepared text, John Gage, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, cited an internal NSPS report, prepared by SRA International, a Fairfax consulting firm,