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Yes. Society's behaviors and their CEV can get closer together without the CEV changing at all. Also note that while CEV<CultureX_2003> is a (very slightly) different thing to CEV<CultureX_2004> even though neither of those "CEVs" change at all.
A potential criticism of army's definition is that it allows for "cultural wireheading" and as such would be a lost purpose if "moral progress" was substituted in as a all-purpose goal or measure of achievement. (That said, I've never really thought of "moral progress" as that-which-should-be-optimised anyhow.)
Then why is "moral progress" a useful concept?
It describes how to compute that-which-should-be-optimized.
EDIT: Replied to wrong message. (Curse my android!)
Shoes aren't that-which-should-be-optimized either, but that doesn't mean that the concept of shoe is not useful.