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Item 1000 Cuts(Army Cyber Institute, 2018) Johnson, Brian DavidScience Fiction Prototypes are science fiction stories based on future trends, technologies, economics, and cultural change. The story you are about to read is based on threatcasting research from the Army Cyber Institute at West Point and Arizona State University’s Threatcasting Lab. Our story does not shy away from a dystopian vision of tomorrow. Exploring these dark regions inspires us to build a better, stronger, and more secure future for our Armed Forces.Item 11-25-2027(Army Cyber Institute, 2018) Johnson, Brian DavidScience Fiction Prototypes are science fiction stories based on future trends, technologies, economics, and cultural change. The story you are about to read is based on threatcasting research from the Army Cyber Institute at West Point and Arizona State University’s Threatcasting Lab. Our story does not shy away from a dystopian vision of tomorrow. Exploring these dark regions inspires us to build a better, stronger, and more secure future for our Armed Forces. Once a year, Americans sit down to a Thanksgiving meal that unites us in gratitude for our safety and security. As many follow the celebration with a football game or an after-dinner nap, our defense automated supply chain never sleeps. Our economy is becoming more and more automated. Between global supply chains and high frequency trading, our national and economic security is increasingly dependent on automation and AI. But what safeguards monitor the machines that we depend upon? On Thanksgiving Day 2027, robots and algorithms will hyper-efficiently run our supply chains, but are these systems themselves secure?Item 5 assumptions that should change how we think about hackbacks(C4ISRNET, 2018) Kallberg, JanThe demand for legalizing corporate hackbacks is growing – and there is significant interest by private corporations to utilize hack back if the technique was lawful. If private companies were able to obtain the right to hack back legally, the risks for blowback is likely more significant than the opportunity and potential gains from private hackbacks. The proponents of private hackback tend to build their case on a set of assumptions. But if these assumptions are not valid, private hackback could become a federal problem through uncontrolled escalation and spillover from these private counterstrikes.Item 6G Systems and the Future of Multidimensional Attack Planes(Army Cyber Institute, 2023) Palochak, Joshua; Brown, Jason C.; Johnson, Brian David; Marx, John; Aranda, AnnetteIn the coming decade, future threats from attacks on 6G communications systems appear in four categories or groups. The threats are specific to government, military, and critical infrastructure. In many ways, 6G promises to serve as the catalyst to the utopian world that science fiction has conditioned western society to envision and pursue. As such, we describe futures in 2030 where 6G has fully permeated human lives. However, a paradox emerges where the journey to achieve this connected state further isolated humans, and comes at a cost of privacy and increased vulnerabilities. More astoundingly is society’s apparent ignorance of these risks. In short, while 6G may not generate unimaginable technologies, there is a toxic side of humanity that is not being recognized, while it is simultaneously surrendering its power.Item A Capstone Design Project for Teaching Cybersecurity to Non-technical Users(ACM, 2016) Estes, Tanya T.; Finocchiaro, James; Blair, Jean R.S.; Robison, Jonathan; Dalme, Justin; Emana, Michael; Jenkins, Luke; Sobiesk, EdwardThis paper presents a multi-year undergraduate computing capstone project that holistically contributes to the development of cybersecurity knowledge and skills in non-computing high school and college students. We describe the student-built Vulnerable Web Server application, which is a system that packages instructional materials and pre-built virtual machines to provide lessons on cybersecurity to non-technical students. The Vulnerable Web Server learning materials have been piloted at several high schools and are now integrated into multiple security lessons in an intermediate, general education information technology course at the United States Military Academy. Our paper interweaves a description of the Vulnerable Web Server materials with the senior capstone design process that allowed it to be built by undergraduate information technology and computer science students, resulting in a valuable capstone learning experience. Throughout the paper, a call is made for greater emphasis on educating the non-technical user.Item A Case of Collaboration: USMA Library's Tiny Art Show “Magnificent Miniatures”(N/A, 2023-04-23) Chess, Jennifer; Gomez, Lisa; Mullooly, LoriIn academic libraries, departments can be siloed and unaware of each other's activities. However, when colleagues stretch beyond these "walled gardens" the results can yield creative projects and a rewarding experience for students, faculty, and staff. This case study will present a successful initiative at the USMA Library: The Tiny Art Show “Magnificent Miniatures.” Several librarians with different and discrete roles worked together to create a passive library program, market that program across campus and then produce a major art exhibit. This collaboration allowed cadets to create original artwork and engage with one another, the exhibit, and the library collection in a unique and scholarly way. Ultimately, this art exhibit was digitized, which provided further engagement outside of the library and across the wider campus community. Participants will learn ways to adapt this program to their library, including scaling this program up or down.Item A Case of Collaboration: USMA Library's Tiny Art Show “Magnificent Miniatures”(N/A, 2023-04-23) Chess, Jennifer; Gomez, Lisa; Mullooly, LoriIn academic libraries, departments can be siloed and unaware of each other's activities. However, when colleagues stretch beyond these "walled gardens" the results can yield creative projects and a rewarding experience for students, faculty, and staff. This case study will present a successful initiative at the USMA Library: The Tiny Art Show “Magnificent Miniatures.” Several librarians with different and discrete roles worked together to create a passive library program, market that program across campus and then produce a major art exhibit. This collaboration allowed cadets to create original artwork and engage with one another, the exhibit, and the library collection in a unique and scholarly way. Ultimately, this art exhibit was digitized, which provided further engagement outside of the library and across the wider campus community. Participants will learn ways to adapt this program to their library, including scaling this program up or down.Item A Celebration of West Point Authors: January- June 2018(USMA Library, 2018) Seminelli, HeatherToday we celebrate the more than 250 works of scholarship produced by the Academy between January and June 2018. The theme of this event is Academy research into health.Item A Celebration of West Point Authors: January-June 2017(USMA Library, 2017) Seminelli, HeatherToday we celebrate the more than 200 works of scholarship produced at the Academy between January and June 2017. Our featured work is “Intolerance: Political Animals and Their Prey,” a book which grew from a year-long multidisciplinary collaboration between faculty members of Bard College and West Point.Item A Celebration of West Point Authors: January-June 2019(United States Military Academy Library, 2019) Seminelli, HeatherToday we celebrate the more than 300 works of scholarship produced at the Academy between January and June 2019. This event highlights published and ongoing research into character and character development.Item A Celebration of West Point Authors: January-June 2020(USMA Library, 2020) Seminelli, HeatherToday we celebrate the more than 200 works of scholarship produced at the Academy between January and June 2020. Of note, this time period also encompasses the start of the COVID-19 pandemic whish which resulted in the cancelation or postponement of many conferences and the move to remote learning after Spring Break 2020. The virtual program features speakers whose work centered around assessing and shaping public opinion.Item A Celebration of West Point Authors: January-June 2022(USMA Library, 2022) Mullooly, LoriToday we celebrate the 480 works of scholarship produced at the Academy between January and June 2022. The program features speakers whose work centered around civil-military relations.Item A Celebration of West Point Authors: July- December 2016(USMA Library, 2016) Seminelli, HeatherToday, we celebrate the more than 100 works of scholarship produced at the Academy between July and December 2016. In addition, we will hear four short excerpts of publications or presentations around the topic of security.Item A Celebration of West Point Authors: July- December 2017(USMA Library, 2018) Seminelli, HeatherToday we celebrate the more than 200 works of scholarship produced at the Academy between July and December 2017. The theme of this event is the intersection of civilian and military technology, policy, and innovation.Item A Celebration of West Point Authors: July- December 2018(USMA Library, 2019) Seminelli, HeatherToday we celebrate the more than 300 works of scholarship produced at the Academy between July and December 2018. This event is celebrating the "Semester of Grant" with Dr. Elizabeth Samet, Department of English and Philosophy, The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant & USMA Special Collections and Archives presenting unique items from and relating to Ulysses S. Grant.Item A Celebration of West Point Authors: July- December 2020(USMA Library, 2020) Seminelli, HeatherToday we celebrate the more than 300 works of scholarship produced at the Academy between July and December 2020. The program features speakers whose work centered around developing leaders.Item A Celebration of West Point Authors: July- December 2021(USMA Library, 2021) Chess, JenniferHighlighting the 328 collected works of scholarship published and presented between July - December 2021.Item A Celebration of West Point Authors: July-December 2019(USMA Library, 2019) Seminelli, HeatherHighlighting the 456 collected works of scholarship published and presented between July - December 2019.Item A Celebration of West Point Scholars and Creators: July 2022-June 2023(N/A, 2023-11-15) Mullooly, LoriToday, we celebrate the 533 works of scholarship produced at the Academy between July 2022 and June 2023. In addition, we will hear presentations around the theme of innovation, technology and the future of national defense.Item A cohort study to identify and evaluate concussion risk factors across multiple injury settings: findings from the CARE Consortium(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-01-14) Van Pelt, Kathryn L.; Allred, Dain; Cameron, Kenneth L.; Campbell, Darren E.; D’Lauro, Christopher J.; He, Xuming; Houston, Megan N.; Johnson, Brian R.; Kelly, Tim F.; McGinty, Gerald; Meehan, Sean K.; O’Donnell, Patrick G.; Peck, Karen Y.; Svoboda, Steven J.; Pasquina, Paul; McAllister, Thomas; McCrea, Michael; Broglio, Steven P.Background Concussion, or mild traumatic brain injury, is a major public health concern affecting 42 million individuals globally each year. However, little is known regarding concussion risk factors across all concussion settings as most concussion research has focused on only sport-related or military-related concussive injuries. Methods The current study is part of the Concussion, Assessment, Research, and Education (CARE) Consortium, a multi-site investigation on the natural history of concussion. Cadets at three participating service academies completed annual baseline assessments, which included demographics, medical history, and concussion history, along with the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT) symptom checklist and Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI-18). Clinical and research staff recorded the date and injury setting at time of concussion. Generalized mixed models estimated concussion risk with service academy as a random effect. Since concussion was a rare event, the odds ratios were assumed to approximate relative risk. Results Beginning in 2014, 10,604 (n = 2421, 22.83% female) cadets enrolled over 3 years. A total of 738 (6.96%) cadets experienced a concussion, 301 (2.84%) concussed cadets were female. Female sex and previous concussion were the most consistent estimators of concussion risk across all concussion settings. Compared to males, females had 2.02 (95% CI: 1.70–2.40) times the risk of a concussion regardless of injury setting, and greater relative risk when the concussion occurred during sport (Odds Ratio (OR): 1.38 95% CI: 1.07–1.78). Previous concussion was associated with 1.98 (95% CI: 1.65–2.37) times increased risk for any incident concussion, and the magnitude was relatively stable across all concussion settings (OR: 1.73 to 2.01). Freshman status was also associated with increased overall concussion risk, but was driven by increased risk for academy training-related concussions (OR: 8.17 95% CI: 5.87–11.37). Medical history of headaches in the past 3 months, diagnosed ADD/ADHD, and BSI-18 Somatization symptoms increased overall concussion risk. Conclusions Various demographic and medical history factors are associated with increased concussion risk. While certain factors (e.g. sex and previous concussion) are consistently associated with increased concussion risk, regardless of concussion injury setting, other factors significantly influence concussion risk within specific injury settings. Further research is required to determine whether these risk factors may aid in concussion risk reduction or prevention.