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.
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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.Item The MIROR Journal: Managing Insider Risk and Organizational Resilience- Summer 2023 Full Issue(West Point Press, 2023)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.Item Imagery Training Session Workshop - Supporting Handouts(2025-05-02)These handouts were used in support of a collaborative research study that examined military musicians’ perceived impact of guided imagery on performance anxiety and overall performance quality. Participants engaged in a series of structured imagery sessions designed as benign behavioral interventions, during which they reflected on their cognitive, emotional, and physiological experiences related to performance. The intervention was supported by four purpose‑built handouts that scaffolded the sessions: (1) an introduction to imagery and its role in music performance, (2) a worksheet for identifying personal anxiety triggers and performance goals, (3) a guided script for constructing individualized performance imagery, and (4) a post‑session reflection and self‑assessment tool. Together, these handouts ensured consistency across sessions and provided musicians with a structured framework for developing and applying imagery techniques. Findings from participant reports contribute to understanding how imagery‑based interventions may reduce performance anxiety and enhance readiness among military musicians.Item Video-Integrated System for Testing Augmented Reality (VISTA): A Rapid Testing Methodology for AR Platforms(Springer Nature, 2025-05-30)This paper evaluates a methodology aimed at enhancing the iterative development of augmented reality (AR) systems. We introduce the Video-Integrated System for Testing Augmented Reality (VISTA), a solution addressing two key challenges for AR developers: slow application deployment and the requirement for users to wear an AR headset for testing. Our approach leverages Holographic Remoting software and the Device Portal application to create short demonstration videos, enabling users to observe users interacting with and the physical world without deploying the application to a device or requiring headset use. To pilot VISTA, we surveyed novice software developers for feedback on an AR application we created, which yielded encouraging results.Item Exploring Hedera Hashgraph for Efficient Data Transfer in MOOS-IvP Aquaticus Testbed(IEEE, 2025)The Hedera hashgraph algorithm has been shown to be Asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant (ABFT) for achieving consensus on adding a transaction into local copies of a hash-graph distributed database. The ABFT result is theoretically the best result that can be achieved for distributed ledger technology (DLT) regarding trusting that the data in each local copy of a distributed global database has not been tampered with during each transaction process to add data into the global distributed database. The hashgraph algorithm ensures that each transaction in each local copy of the global database can be trusted to be a true copy of the data submitted by each node in the set of peer nodes as long as no more than 1/3 of the peer nodes in the peer-to-peer network of hashgraph nodes have been compromised. The Aquaticus, capture the flag (CTF) force-on-force free-play competition between Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) agents enables use of a variety of ML algorithms to build AI/ML agents to play and win the CTF game in a maritime environment by employing the MOOS-IvP autonomy stack. This paper explores the integration of Hedera hashgraph DLT into the MOOS-IvP Aquaticus testbed for efficient and secure data transfer in collaborative autonomy scenarios. The study focuses on developing a multi-node Hedera network to support decentralized, real-time, and tamper-proof communication among autonomous agents in adversarial maritime environments. A detailed network setup using Docker and solo-compose is outlined, including transitioning from single-node to multi-node configurations. The system's application is evaluated in the context of the Aquaticus capture-the-flag (CTF) environment, highlighting its role in synchronizing flag positions and tagging status among unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), Initial findings indicate that the Hedera network can enhance data integrity and scalability while reducing latency in distributed systems. Challenges in scaling and resource optimization are discussed, along with proposed future work to deploy physical nodes using Raspberry Pi and integrate reinforcement learning frameworks like PyQuaticus. This research provides a foundation for advancing decentralized communication in autonomous robotics, emphasizing its potential for secure and robust multi-agent collaboration.
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