Army Ends Bias-Reduction Program for Promotions

The Army has scrapped a Biden administration program that had a stated goal of reducing conscious and unconscious biases and using new methods for command-level promotions.

The Command Assessment Program used psychology and peer assessments in addition to traditional methods. It was created as a pilot program in 2019 to evaluate sergeants major, lieutenant colonels, and colonels for command assignments in battalion- and brigade-level units, Military Times reported Tuesday.

In January, days before President Donald Trump took office, then-Army Secretary Christine Wormuth made CAP an official program of record, Military Times reported.

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