From Fox News: The Army has canceled its Command Assessment Program (CAP), a promotion board that factored psychological assessments and potential biases into leadership considerations.
The program, which was implemented broadly across the Army in 2020, was aimed at reducing conscious and subconscious biases and using peer assessments and behavioral analysis to choose candidates for command posts.
Former Army Secretary Christine Wormuth had made CAP an official program of record just before President Donald Trump took office.
“The battery of psychometric assessments employs several different instruments to measure cognitive capacity, emotional intelligence, conscientiousness, self-awareness, and other behavioral traits,” Army documents explaining CAP said.
However, the report notes that about 54% of the Army’s eligible senior officers chose not to participate in CAP last year.
It also didn’t help when Gen. Charles Hamilton, then-commander of Army Materiel Command, was busted for improperly influencing the selection process in favor of a lieutenant colonel who had failed her CAP assessment. Hamilton was fired over the issue in December 2024.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth commented on a Military Times report about the program being eliminated and wrote, “Good riddance. Promotions across @DeptofDefense will ONLY be based on merit & performance.”
Good riddance.
Promotions across @DeptofDefense will ONLY be based on merit & performance. pic.twitter.com/ttGRGsIByA
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) September 3, 2025
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