Army will review selection boards that choose leaders for command
The Command Assessment Program, or CAP, uses formal review boards to select soldiers for command positions. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll ordered a review of the program.
Patty Nieberg
Aug 1, 2025 9:02 AM EDT
Army officials will review a program that was established to select experienced soldiers for command. Army photo by Sgt. Dre Stout.
The Army will review the use of selection boards to assess senior soldiers for command positions, officials said.
In a memo Thursday, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll rescinded the official status of the Army Command Assessment Program, or CAP. CAP is a review board system that evaluates command sergeants major, lieutenant colonels, and colonels for command assignments. Those soldiers appear before a selection board of general officers and sitting or former brigade commanders. The boards evaluate a candidate’s suitability for command based on peer reviews, subordinate feedback, and other criteria to determine if they should be recommended for command.
CAP was elevated to an official program of record in a Jan. 13 memo by former Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, just days before the end of the Biden administration. Driscoll’s Thursday memo rescinded that status.
Driscoll ordered a “deliberate review of how CAP fits into our broader talent management and warfighting strategy,” Lt. Col. Jeffrey Tolbert, a spokesperson for Secretary Driscoll, told Task & Purpose in a statement.
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