Well, if you are going to work for DOD, you may re-consider salary. They have gone to a NSPS system, which is a merit performance based system. The problem is, it won’t work that way at all. They have developed a pay banding, supposedly to recruit people in certain fields. Those people will get paid. Other workers, dependent on “available funds.” Heh. That means they won’t be available. If I didn’t have 12 years in, I would find another job.