text: Provide Human Resources Services
  should be prepared to discuss this topic and be ready to advise rating officials on how to maintain credible
  profiles that provide the flexibility to recognize top performing individuals.
  4-15. AR 623-3, Evaluation Reporting System, and DA PAM 623-3, Evaluation Reporting System, provide
  policy and procedural guidance for processing officer and NCO evaluation reports. Forms content
  management facilitates the process of forwarding completed evaluation reports to the HRC for final action
  and placement in the AMHRR, except for ARNG NCO evaluation reports, which route to the State Enlisted
  Personnel Manager for processing. The DOD Civilian Personnel Management System evaluates and
  documents the performance of most DA Civilian personnel. The authority for DA Civilian employees is
  DODI 1400.25, Volume 431, DOD Civilian Personnel Management System: Performance Management and
  Appraisal Program. Additionally, certain Army Civilian employees are covered by alternative civilian
  personnel management systems which follow other prescribed performance management systems (for
  example, Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System, Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration
  Project, and Science & Technology Reinvention Laboratory Personnel Demonstration Projects).
  RATING SCHEMES
  4-16. Commanders are required to establish and maintain rating schemes for all officer, NCO, and DOD and
  DA Civilian personnel within their respective commands. The S-1 assists commanders by coordinating
  communication at all levels to ensure rating schemes are up-to-date and free of errors. Monthly checks and
  updates are required due to personnel turbulence units’ experience while in garrison or changes to task
  organization while deployed. Established rating schemes become critical tools when processing evaluation
  report appeals.
  TIMELINESS
  4-17. The HQDA continues to emphasize timely and accurate submission of evaluation reports (officer,
  enlisted, and DA Civilian) while in garrison or deployed. The cover page of a senior rater’s Evaluation
  Timeliness Report, which includes information on delinquent reports (except DA Civilian and ARNG NCO
  evaluation reports), can be filed in that senior rater’s AMHRR if authorized by AR 600-8-104.
  PROMOTIONS AND REDUCTIONS
  4-18. AR 600-8-19, Enlisted Promotions and Reductions, and AR 600-8-29, Officer Promotions, prescribe
  the enlisted promotions, reductions, and officer promotion functions of the military personnel system. Both
  provide principles of support, standards of service, policies, tasks, rules, and steps governing all work
  required in the field to support enlisted promotions and reductions and officer promotions. Both regulations
  also provide the objectives of the Army’s enlisted and officer promotion systems, which include filling
  authorized spaces with the best qualified Soldiers and officers. Further, both promotion systems provide for
  career progression and rank that are in line with potential and for recognition of the best qualified Soldiers
  and officers, which attracts and retains the highest caliber of Soldiers and officers for a career in the Army.
  Additionally, both systems preclude promoting Soldiers and officers who are not productive or qualified. For
  ARNG and USAR promotions, refer to AR 135-155, Promotion of Commissioned Officers and Warrant
  Officers Other Than General Officers, AR 135-156, Reserve Component General Officer Personnel
  Management, NGR 600-100, Commissioned Officers-Federal Recognition and Related Personnel Actions,
  and NGR 600-101, Warrant Officers-Federal Recognition and Related Personnel Actions.
  4-19. It is important for all personnel involved in the enlisted and officer promotion system to understand
  Soldiers and officers from all Army components may be assigned to their organization. Each component has
  its own separate promotion policies, rules, and steps governing promotions. When conducting enlisted
  promotions at unit-level, commanders and S-1s need to be knowledgeable of USAR and ARNG promotion
  policies and procedures as depicted in AR 600-8-19 and the Army Mobilization and Deployment Reference,
  and should audit Promotion Point Worksheets to ensure compliance. For example, notification or approval
  may be required from the State before promoting ARNG Soldiers. Refer to ATP 1-0.1 for detailed
  information pertaining to promotions and reductions.