Attention staff sergeants who were considered for promotion by the Regular Army and Active Guard and Reserve sergeant first class board that met in June.
The much-anticipated selection list generated by that panel will be released "soon," according to officials in the Office of the Army G1 at the Pentagon.
Barring unforeseen problems, the Army will begin promoting off the list in October, the beginning of fiscal 2016.
Selection board results normally are released a few weeks after a board adjourns, but this year's list is running late because of delays in the distribution of notices for the Qualitative Management Program, which is a retention screening process for NCOs, E6 and above, who have had derogatory information placed in their official file.
Normally QMP reviews are held in conjunction with a senior NCO promotion board, such as the sergeant first class panel that met throughout June.
However, this year there was a delay in distributing QMP notices for the E7 board, and the QMP panel did not meet until July, separately from the promotion board, which in turn has delayed processing of the promotion and QMP lists, G1 officials said.
"We will continue in a systematic yet deliberate manner to ensure both products support our ability to man Army formations," according to a statement issued by Paul Prince, spokesman for the Office of the G1.
"Delaying the SFC list provides us the means to mitigate potential SFC losses (based on denial of continued service by means of the QMP) and to ensure that a sufficient number of staff sergeants are otherwise selected for promotion," according to Prince.
The primary zone of consideration for the June promotion board included staff sergeants with E6 dates of rank of Feb. 5, 2011, and earlier. Staff sergeants with DOR of Feb. 6, 2011, through June 3, 2012, were in the secondary zone.
Sergeants first class boards are the largest centralized promotion panels annually conducted by the Army. The 2014 board considered 22,278 active component staff sergeants, and selected 5,446 for promotion, for an overall select rate of 24 percent.
