NOACs
Acronyms
DEMO Basics
Systems
Which WFC?
100

Promotion

What is 702?

100

NSWC IHD

What is Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division?

100

The original authority code for all DEMO actions.

What is Z2U, P.L. 103-337?

100

This is a useful tool for pulling employee information such as SF-50s and demographic data, and tracking RPAs.

What is TWMS?

100

The Navy's Manufacturing Technology Center for Energetics.

What is NSWC Indian Head?

200

Conversion to Career Appointment

What is 500?

200

WIGI

What is Within Grade Increase?

200

The ND career path is Scientific/Engineering. This is the NG career path.

What is General Support?

200

Workforce Development rolled out this new talent management system in April 2022 for mandatory training and IDPs.

What is Waypoints?

200

In December of 2018, the first wave of Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Defense Division transferred to Indian Head from this Division.

What is NSWC Dahlgren?

300

Reassignment

What is 721?

300

DCPDS

What is Defense Civilian Personnel Data System?

300

An employee is entitled to receive one upon conversion to DEMO, for example when the nature of action is reassignment and there is no increase in pay.

What is a WIGI buy-in?

300

This long-awaited system will be a cloud-based replacement for DCPDS.

What is DCHRMS?

300

The two undersea warfare center divisions, located on opposite coasts.

What are NUWC Keyport and NUWC Newport?

400

Realignment

What is 790?

400

SPD

What is Supervisory Pay Differential?

400

When exiting DEMO, if an employee's salary falls within two authorized exit grades, the salary must exceed this in order to place the employee in the higher grade.

What is the Step 4 (of the higher grade)?

400

Former name of the Talent Acquisition Portal (TAP) where candidates can submit resumes for hiring managers to search.

What is Yello?

400

Although this Division is in the Midwest, instead of along a coast, they are located on the third largest Naval installation in the world.

What is NSWC Crane?

500

Change in Differential

What is 810?

500

SSTM

What is Senior Scientific Technical Manager?

500

The career path and band level of SSTM positions.

What is ND-6?

500

This suite of web tools that is currently being piloted will replace DCPDS to request and initiate frequently used personnel actions.

What is AutoNOA?

500

This Division's origins began with mine countermeasures research conducted during World War II at the U.S. Naval Mine Warfare Test Station, in  Solomons, Maryland before it was transferred to a more southern location in 1945.

What is NSWC Panama City?