UNCLASSIFIED// ROUTINE R 051005Z NOV 20 MID200000329405U FM COMNAVRESFOR NORFOLK VA TO NAVRESFOR INFO ASSTSECNAV MRA WASHINGTON DC CNO WASHINGTON DC COMNAVRESFORCOM NORFOLK VA COMNAVPERSCOM MILLINGTON TN COMNAVAIRFORES SAN DIEGO CA COMNAVIFORES FORT WORTH TX COMNAVRESFOR NORFOLK VA BT UNCLAS ALNAVRESFOR 023/20 MSGID/GENADMIN/COMNAVRESFOR NORFOLK VA/N1/FEB// SUBJ/FISCAL YEAR 2021 RESERVE PERSONNEL PROGRAMS EXCELLENCE AWARD BENCHMARKS// REF/A/DOC/CNO WASHINGTON DC/121637ZNOV19// REF/B/MSG/CNO WASHINGTON DC/162058ZAPR18// REF/C/MSG/CNO WASHINGTON DC/231840ZAPR18// REF/D/PUB/BUPERS/17JAN17// REF/E/DOC/OPNAV/22FEB12// NARR/REF A IS NAVADMIN 254/19, CULTURE OF EXCELLENCE. REF B IS NAVADMIN 095/18, BRILLIANT ON THE BASICS II PART A REVISITING THE BASICS. REF C IS NAVADMIN 100/18, BRILLIANT ON THE BASICS II PART B ENGAGEMENT. REF D IS BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL CAREER COUNSELOR HANDBOOK. REF E IS OPNAVINST 1040.11D, NAVY ENLISTED RETENTION AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.// POC/CEDAR/NCCM/COMNAVRESFORCOM N15/TEL:(757) 322-5774/ DSN 322-5774/ E-MAIL: KIMBERLY.CEDAR(AT)NAVY.MIL// RMKS/1. This ALNAVRESFOR highlights Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Navy Reserve Personnel Program Excellence force trends and behaviors, outlines FY-21 Reserve Personnel Program Excellence Award (RPPEA) benchmark criteria and introduces FY 2022 RPPEA vision Additionally, this message is intended to reemphasize our commitment towards promoting a Culture of Excellence in line with reference (a), and the need to retain the best and brightest talent on our Navy team. 2. FY-20 Trends and Behavior. Our FY-20 retention results were outstanding and reflected your considerable efforts in recruiting and retaining talented Sailors. Despite COVID-19 operating environment, we have maintained excellent retention throughout FY-20, largely accomplished through your dedication to excellence and Sailor 2025 initiatives which are intended to provide Sailors with the choices, flexibility and transparency they have come to expect. Our Sailors are proudly declaring that the Navy remains their employer of choice. We have endeavored to provide world-class customer service and dedicated Sailors to ensure proper administrative handling of our Sailors and their families, and in FY-21 we aim to continue the retention trends as well as increase other personnel program resources to ensure the greatest reach of resources to Sailors. 3. FY-21 Retention Environment. Recognizing that we are in a Great Power Competition, challenges at-sea and across the globe require that we retain the experience and proficiency required to ensure we are operationally ready. Every Sailor is critical in that endeavor, whether supporting our Reserve Sailors, conducting training exercises, or sailing into harms way. Our Reserve Force is vital to the war-fighting capabilities of our Navy. Your leadership and engagement at every level is needed to maintain our retention momentum and ensure we are properly manned for every mission. 4. FY-21 Benchmarks. a. Seventy-seven percent aggregate reenlistment rate with Reserve Affiliation for Zones A through C. (1) We are a Total Force, both Active and Reserve meeting the mission together. Sailors leaving Active Duty or Full-Time Support to affiliate with our Selected Reserve force shows the level of commitment our Sailors have as well as the commitment of the leadership to encourgage continued service in other components. b. Ninety percent on the annual Career Information Program Review (CIPR). c. Ninety percent Veterans Opportunity to Work (VOW) Act compliance rate. d. Zero unresolved Navy Wide Advancement Exam (NWAE) discrepancies for Selected Reserve exam cycles 107 and 108 and Active Duty exam cycles 248, 249 and 250. e. Ninety-five percent timely Drill pay (IDT pay) adjudication. 5. Reserve Personnel Program Excellence Award. The annual RPPEA is built upon the tenets in references (b) and (c), Brilliant on the Basics. Commands will be RPPEA eligible if they meet or exceed the FY-21 program benchmarks cited in paragraph 4. a. Reenlistment rate Computation Exceptions. A zone with zero transactions at or before end of active obligated service will qualify as a 100 percent reenlistment rate if the command has qualifying transactions in the other zones. Only two zones may be allowed to default to 100 percent. b. Loss transactions on a Sailor transferred from a command due to pending separation, medical hold or a legal hold will reflect on the command the Sailor was last attached to in an accounting code 100 status. c. Commands must have, at a minimum, one zone of qualifying transactions to be eligible for the RPPEA. Waivers may be considered on a case-by-case basis for small commands that have outstanding programs but no junior Sailors. d. Echelon II commands, Type Commanders (TYCOM) and Immediate Superiors in Command (ISIC) will determine the necessity of waivers where command-level performance and personnel complement dictate. Requests for waivers of any award element in paragraph 4 must be submitted in writing via the respective ISIC/TYCOM with specific justification. Waiver requests must be signed by the Commanding Officer. Requests not positively endorsed at any level will not be considered. Waiver approval authority resides with Echelon II commands. e. TYCOM and direct reporting counselors will evaluate and submit eligible commands to their respective Echelon II commands no later than 3 January 2022. 6. RPPEA Announcement and Recognition. Echelon II command will announce their FY-21 RPPEA recipients following the consolidation of Echelon III and direct reporting command submissions no later than 1 February 2022. Following the announcement message, awardees may fly the Retention Excellence Award pennant to signify receipt of the RPPEA and may paint their command anchor(s) gold until release of the following year's award announcement message. Commander, Navy Reserve Force (CNRF) will provide commendation certificates for all qualifying commands. 7. The future of RPPEA is to promote a culture of excellence throughout our Reserve Force. Adding two new metrics for FY 21 allows the award to move from a Career Counselor focused award to a Command award. In FY 2022, three additional metrics will be added: RASW (Reserve Affiliation Success Workshop) completion, Command Indoctrination program completion, and Command Climate Assessment with ISIC debrief. The three new metrics drive policy compliance, promote Brilliant on the Basics and successful onboarding of our Sailors. 8. Reserve Component points of contact: a. CNRFC, Chief Cheyenne Delahunt, e-mail: cheyenne.delahunt(at)navy.mil, tel: (757) 322-2490 b. Naval Air Force Reserve, Senior Chief Jason Martinez, e-mail: jason.martinez1(at)navy.mil, tel: (619) 545-8743 c. Navy Region Northwest Reserve Component Command Everett, Chief Ansel Glendenning, e-mail: ansel.glendenning(at)navy.mil, tel: (425) 304-3831 d. Navy Region Southwest Reserve Component Command San Diego, Chief Roslyn Tyler, e-mail: roslyn.tyler(at)navy.mil, tel: (619) 532-1879 e. Navy Region Mid-Atlantic Reserve Component Command Great Lakes, Chief Christina Marzella, e-mail: christina.marzella(at)navy.mil, tel: (847) 688-4916 x213 f. Navy Region Mid-Atlantic Reserve Component Command Norfolk, Chief Doug Bass, e-mail: douglas.bass1(at)navy.mil, tel: (757) 341-5966 g. Navy Region Southeast Reserve Component Command Jacksonville, Chief Kenneth Swan, e-mail: kenneth.s.swan(at)navy.mil tel: (904) 542-8557 h. Navy Region Southeast Reserve Component Command Fort Worth, Chief christina.goldstein, e-mail: christina.goldstein(at)navy.mil, tel: (817) 782-1909 i. Fleet Logistics Support Wing, Chief Antwann North, e-mail: antwann.north(at)navy.mil, tel: (817) 782-7882 j. Tactical Support Wing, Senior Chief Krystle Kaszuba, e-mail: krystle.kaszuba(at)navy.mil, tel: (817) 782-1527 k. Maritime Support Wing, Chief Jorge Arencibia, e-mail: jorge.arencibia(at)navy.mil, tel: (619) 545-2488 9. Shipmates, the changes above in the Reserve Personnel Programs Excellence Award Criteria drive to a higher standard - A Standard of Excellence - appropriate for our Navy Reserve Force. The process is, by design, extremely competetive in the areas that impact our Sailors the most. Striving to earn recognition via selection of the RPPEA will make our Force better, stronger, and more capable...while contributing to the establishment and maintenance of a Culture of Excellence. 10. Released by VADM J. B. Mustin, Commander, Navy Reserve Force.// BT #0030 NNNN UNCLASSIFIED// EVANS.JOHN.KENNETH.JR.1512573173 UNCLASSIFIED//