Active Army is supposed to implement the test this year, but may be pushed. The Guard and Reserve side asked to push till 2021. The latter because part time guys need time to get in shape, and because the equipment needed isn't available to those units. The old PT test was just pushups, situps and a 2 mile run. You could do that at any HS track. Now they need pull up bars, medicine balls, kettle bells, a pull sled, a hex bar and weights. DOD needs to provide 100ks of these, not only to train on but to implement a test. The average line company has 120 personnel, you'd need 12 sets to get through a PT test and it'll still take an entire day (the separate events are held back to back, no waiting, so a grader follows one testee until he/she is finishes, including the 2 mile run at the end).
The Army used to graduate basic trainee's at the 60% fitness level in the 90's. It was dropped to a 50% in the 2000's. They were told "you'll get you're training and fitness standards when you get to your unit." That was an Obama rule, and it killed unit readiness, effectiveness, leathality and overall cohesiveness. Then training dollars were dropped, 40% readiness was the new norm, and more time was allotted to cross-gender acceptance training than a flat range. Case in point - weapons qual is mandatory every 2 years, but sexual harassment is an annual requirement. Sexual Harassment (SHARPS), training would rate a unit as either S1 (deployable), or S4 (non-deployable) depending on the level of participation, meaning a unit could deploy to a warzone with more SHARPS instruction than weapons familiarization. The general public doesn't know the ridiculousness of this rule, and the potential casualties because of it . Most of the force is more prepared to teach a social justice class than shoot a bad guy in the face.
Herdman and I work in the same community. One of the main rules of that community is that you can't mass produce SOF, especially after the fact. The same goes for the rest of the military. We're now trying to catch up and make warriors again. Instead of maintaining a war ready force we're now tasked with retooling, refitting and re-educating a neutered force.
