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The Army aims to formally implement the Army Combat Fitness Test its biggest overhaul to fitness testing since 1980 by April 2022, the services top NCO says.

Theres one potential hang-up, though.

Congress put the brakes on using the ACFT for promotion or career consideration and mandated an independent review of the test in the fiscal 2021 National Defense Authorization Act. Lawmakers were concerned that the new test may disadvantage women in their career paths.

The RAND Corporation is conducting the review, which will likely be complete before the new year. Its the second independent review of the ACFT; the University of Iowa did one of an earlier version of the test.

Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston said the service believes that the third version of the test, which made the plank event a permanent scored alternative to the leg tuck, will pass the review.

Im extremely confident that on April 1, we will have a test for record, and I am hopeful it will be the ACFT, he said in an interview with Army Times ahead of the Association of the U.S. Army conference in October.

Its not clear yet, though, whether the tests gender-neutral scoring will remain gender-neutral when it comes to personnel considerations.

Army senior leaders have floated the idea of implementing performance categories that sort men and women by performance into percentile categories relative to their gender.

Lt. Col. Gabe Ramirez, an Army spokesperson, told Army Times that once the NDAA-directed independent study is complete and Army senior leaders have studyinformed data to make decisions, the Army will finalize the personnel polices relative to the ACFT.

Davis Winkie is a staff reporter covering the Army. He originally joined Military Times as a reporting intern in 2020. Before journalism, Davis worked as a military historian. He is also a human resources officer in the Army National Guard.

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