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 Driving Artificial Intelligence(2025)You are an advisor to a self-driving vehicle research and manufacturing company. You received the letter below from the Chief of the Emergency Response System Division. Evaluate the options available, explore new options, select an option for your response, and provide your rationale.Item The 72-hour ghost: AI vs the ticking clock(2025)The leak of officials’ private schedules and security codes suggests a massive internal data breach. Forensic analysts confirm that the message originated from a rotating sequence of burner accounts routed through Tor, and every email is signed by the same pseudonym: “The Ghost.”Item Hacking the Vaccine(2025)You are a member of a team of staffers who work cybersecurity issues for the National Security Council. During the last meeting, the president complained loudly about China’s hacking of research organizations that are developing COVID-19 vaccines. He mentioned “the story in the news,” and you have been tasked to provide a briefing and policy options.Item CrowdStrike Cyber-Case: Update to Global Outage(2026)On July 19, 2024, a massive IT outage took place due to the failure of a software update coming from CrowdStrike, one of the top global cybersecurity firms. The outage affected more than 8.5 million Windows devices and led to severe problems delivering services in domains ranging from airlines to hospitals.1 CrowdStrike fixed the issue in less than a week, but it revealed serious issues with the automated updates used by IT infrastructure.Item Fly, Patch, and Don’t Lose Case Study(2025)You are stationed overseas and assigned to the air component headquarters for the geographic combatant command. Your base, in the allied country of Sageland, hosts the air operations center that integrates air, space, cyber, and information operations in the theater and provides commanders with command and control of joint operations through detailed joint panning, target development, weaponeering, sortie allocation, air tasking order production, mission execution management and opeational-level assessment functions.
Communities in USMA Athena
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