Welcome to USMA Athena
USMA Athena is a secure digital service managed by the United States Military Academy Library to make the work of USMA scholars freely available, while also ensuring these resources are organized to preserve the legacy of USMA scholarship. The mission of USMA Athena is to showcase the academic impact and intellectual capital that has become synonymous with the celebrated heritage of educational prowess attributed to the Long Gray Line. Scholarship submitted to USMA Athena benefits from added visibility and discoverability via Google Scholar in addition to the use of persistent URLs that will provide enduring access to the work over time.
Recent Submissions
Item Bystander Engagement(West Point Press, 2023)The power of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Insider Threat Program resides in every individual in the DoD and their willingness to take action to help a friend, co-worker, supervisor, or family member in need. This requires us all to be aware, know whom to communicate with, understand which avenues for assistance are available, and take action.Item Is there a nobler pursuit than of protecting our people and the organizations they serve and that serve their employees?(West Point Press, 2023)Thank you for spending a measure of your precious time diving into the content offered by the Managing Insider Risk and Organizational Resilience (MIROR) Journal. At every age before and since antiquity, people have been the world’s greatest resource. Even with the advent of great technology, people remain paramount. Is there a nobler pursuit than of protecting our people and the organizations they serve and that serve their employees? Many in this community would say no. So, thank you for helping us advance the conversation about risk, threat, and resilience. Let’s have the conversation at every level of the organization, from entry to C-Suite.Item The MIROR Journal: Managing Insider Risk and Organizational Resilience-Front Matter(West Point Press, 2023)Front Matter for the Summer 2023 issue for The MIROR Journal: Managing Insider Risk and Organizational ResilienceItem GeoJitter: a flexible toolkit for region-aware node jittering in spatial networks(Discover Networks, 2026-01-28)GeoJitter is an open-source Python package for region-aware randomization of node locations in spatial networks, designed to preserve network structure while mitigating privacy risks and supporting spatial visualization of incomplete or uncertain data. Existing open-source randomization techniques rarely incorporate geospatial boundaries, limiting their applicability for spatial analysis; GeoJitter addresses this gap and provides tiling solutions when region data is unavailable. Performance was compared against Radius and K-Nearest Neighbor randomization across 100 trials on Brightkite and Gowalla networks; structural metrics remained stable with the most disparity in average path length, which changed by 0.14–0.28 (versus 0.06–0.09 for benchmarks). Changes in betweenness were near zero (− 0.0001 overall), clustering coefficient shifted by approximately 0.009, and modularity by − 0.015. These results demonstrate comparability to established methods while introducing a flexible, region-aware approach for privacy-sensitive spatial analysis.Item The MIROR Journal: Managing Insider Risk and Organizational Resilience- Summer 2024 Full Issue(West Point Press, 2024)The Managing Insider Risk & Organizational Resilience (MIROR) Journal (Online ISSN 2832-5427 Print ISSN 2832-5419) is a scholarly Open Access journal published by the West Point Press, the publishing arm of the United States Military Academy, and produced by the Insider Threat Research Research Program at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the United States Military Academy. The views expressed in the journal are those of the authors and not the United States Military Academy, the Department of the Army, or any other agency of the U.S. Government. The mention of companies and/or products is for demonstrative purposes only and does not constitute an endorsement by the United States Military Academy, the Department of the Army, or any other agency of the U.S. Government.
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