Fort Eustis, Newport News, Va., October 2018: Army Staff Sgt. Jessica Smiley, a test grader with the Army’s Center for Initial Military Training, looks on as soldiers with the 128th Aviation Brigade at Fort Eustis in Virginia demonstrate the deadlift, the first of six events of the new Army Combat Fitness Test on Oct. 23, 2018.

The Army was in the process of determining the standards soldiers must meet to pass the new, six-event evaluation set to become its physical fitness test in October 2020. As officials receive feedback from those testing battalions, they could decide whether adjustments might be necessary, said Whitfield East, the research physiologist at CMIT who is leading development of the test.