From Wikipedia:under “Excepted Service”

“Excepted service”

“The excepted service is the part of the United States federal civil servicethat is not part of either the competitive service or the Senior Executive Service. It allows streamlined hiring processes to be used under certain circumstances.”

• “Schedule Policy/Career appointments, formerly known as Schedule F appointments apply to "confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating positions."[5]”

“[5] • "Executive Order on Creating Schedule F In The Excepted Service". whitehouse.gov. 2020-10-21. Archived from the original on 2021-01-30. Retrieved 2020-10-24 – via National Archives.”

I don’t know if the 2020 EO is still current or has been reissued or revised from the referenced one.

Do you actually have a concern about 1102 series being converted to a schedule under the Excepted Service, not specifically “Schedule F” ? That could be a possibility.

Might be a good thing for the Nation.

joel hoffman said:

I don’t know if the 2020 EO is still current or has been reissued or revised from the referenced one.

Rescinded and now be reignited. Here you go - https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-creates-new-federal-employee-category-to-enhance-accountability/

@Dugtastic Anything is possible but it would appear from the Fact Sheet that the rank and file 1102 is not in consideration.

Thanks for the insight everyone. I strongly agree that Federal employees should be accountable and carry out the directives of any administration under the law, regulations and executive orders. My concern was for Contracting Officers being at-will, fired and losing retirement/severance pay if they followed the regulations and did not award to preferred Contractors of those in leadership. Also concerned for Procurement Analysts being impacted by this, even if they are not directly creating these policies, but reviewing procurement actions or auditing contracts based on these policies only.

@Dugtastic If that’s the reason for your question, the matter of exempted service isn’t that relevant.

Before I took Deferred Resignation (2 weeks ago) at the Department of Energy, all 1102s were going to be considered Schedule F. It may have changed in the interim.

KeithB18 said:

all 1102s were going to be considered Schedule F.

Is there a reference that you can provide that this was going to occur?

C Culham said:

Is there a reference that you can provide that this was going to occur?

It was told to me verbally. No one is putting anything in email and even slide decks were hard copy only. I do trust the source though, he was in a position to know.

Thank you

https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/current Includes the following - https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-06904.pdf (aka Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service) which is to be published in the Federal Register tomorrow April 23, 2025.

There have always been some 1102s in the excepted service. For example, those with very high level security clearances. Usually, the excepted service status goes with a particular position with particular duties.

Vern Edwards said:

There have always been some 1102s in the excepted service. For example, those with very high level security clearances. Usually, the excepted service status goes with a particular position with particular duties.

No personnelist here but the quote intrigued me so I did a little research.

GS 1102's have been in the excepted service. By example see the following link to a Federal Register notice of 2021 by OPM regarding positions in excepted service Schedules A,B, & C. There are references to 1102's in the notice. On point to the original poster regarding Schedule F by my research F was what I will call "created" in the first Trump Adminstration and is being reignited once again. Up until 2020 when F first appeared there was Schedule A,B,C,D & E. The references I found for my conclusions was an array found in doing an internet search which also pointed to the fact that creation of Schedule F is pursuant 5 U.S.C. § 7511 .