Modernization Plan The Academy is undergoing a holistic 15 to 20-year modernization effort to renovate, retrofit, and modernize facilities, programs. capabilities, and infrastructure to provide the most highly qualified, capable, and ready officers for the Nation. Contact the USMA 2035 team for more information Modernization Plan The Academy is undergoing a holistic 15 to 20-year modernization effort to renovate, retrofit, and modernize facilities, programs. capabilities, and infrastructure to provide the most highly qualified, capable, and ready officers for the Nation. Contact the USMA 2035 team for more information Breadcrumb about modernization plan About MENU Academy Leadership Developing Leaders of Character History of West Point Modernization Plan Accreditation & Assessment Privacy Policy Visit the Academy Academic Calendar Storied History - 22nd Century Capabilities To confront the security challenges of our time, West Point is leaning into several modernization efforts to align U.S. Military Academy (USMA) capabilities with the future battlefield to ensure that our Army is the most lethal and effective in the world.Preparing cadets to lead in the future necessitates action now. It requires foresight, innovative thinking, and considered effort to reorient our structures and curriculum to the emerging realities of our time. As always, West Point stands ready to meet the needs of the Army and the Nation. Featured Modernization Efforts Michie Stadium Preservation Project East stands renovation Spring 2024 - Fall 2026 Michie Stadium, home to Army football, is a critical portal through which USMA engages and connects with America. For many Americans, this venue, built in 1924, might be the only lens through which they see and learn about West Point. For nearly a century, Michie Stadium has showcased the grit, tenacity, discipline and values of our cadet-athletes and the Corps of Cadets at large.A modern and ambitious expansion of the classic Michie Stadium serves as a portal through which America sees its military academy. This gift-funded project will begin work in the spring of 2024 and is planned to open for the 2026 football season. Learn more about the Michie Stadium Preservation Project Learn more about upgrades to physical infrastructure Cyber and Engineering Academic Center (CEAC) Expected completion date - 2026 (Future Goethal’s Hall) A cutting-edge engineering center worthy of America’s top engineering programs, the Cyber and Engineering Academic Center (CEAC), the future Goethal’s Hall, at West Point is a modern academic facility that will enable and inspire collaboration across engineering disciplines. This 136,000 square-foot state-of-the-art facility will facilitate a powerful and broad impact within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) scholarship and industry. Learn more about the CEAC Learn more about academic infrastructure upgrades Cyber and Engineering Academic Center (CEAC) Gateway Bridge Beginning date - 2028 The Gateway Bridge connects the Cyber and Engineering Academic Center (CEAC) to Mahan Hall, which forms an iconic entrance to West Point; enhances the accessibility of both facilities for cadets, staff, and faculty; and increases the number (and enhances the quality) of individual and group study spaces for cadets. The Gateway Bridge is one of two proposed critical donor-funded enhancements (subject to the availability of funds raised) that will ensure the facility achieves its goal of integrating academic programs and projects across disciplines while showcasing an exterior that honors West Point’s traditions and heritage. Learn more about the CEAC Learn more about academic infrastructure upgrades Academic Program Modernization As the battlefield rapidly evolves, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point is continuously examining its Academic Program to ensure it intellectually prepares graduates to lead now and through the next evolution of warfare. The program is undergoing a major transformation in multiple phases. The Academic Program Modernization webpage provides updates on the latest and upcoming changes. Learn about the modernization of the Academic Program Thayer Hall The linchpin of USMA’s Academic Building Upgrade Program Renovation to begin in 2029 A modern academic facility is foundational to the Army’s leader development strategy. West Point’s Academic Building Upgrade Program (ABUP) recognizes that developing world-class leaders demands world-class infrastructure. As the cornerstone of that program, Thayer Hall’s reconstruction is essential to delivering a 21st-century education that equips cadets for complex operational environments. Learn about the Academic Building Upgrade Program Learn more about academic infrastructure upgrades Cullum Hall Expected completion date - 2026 Built in 1896 and dedicated in June 1900, Cullum Hall was originally designed to memorialize the service and ultimate sacrifice of West Point graduates who died in war. While the first and second floors will remain largely as is, the lower two basement levels, which currently house various cadet clubs, will be renovated to serve as the new home for the USMA Archives. Learn about the Academic Building Upgrade Program Learn more about academic infrastructure upgrades Lincoln Hall Expected completion date - 2026 Built in 1910 as Bachelor Officer Quarters, Lincoln Hall currently houses the Department of English and Philosophy, the Department of Social Sciences, the Combating Terrorism Center and the Office for Economic and Manpower Analysis. It will be renovated and repurposed to house the Directorate for Admissions, the USMA Staff Judge Advocate, Audio, Visual and Media Support, and the Cadet Store. Learn more about the Academic Building Upgrade Program (ABUP) Learn more about academic infrastructure upgrades Cadet Barracks Upgrade Program 2017-27 The Cadet Barracks Upgrade Program (CBUP) is a 10-year effort to completely renovate and modernize all eight cadet barracks. The program includes the construction of the Davis Barracks, completed in FY2017, and one regular permanent party enlisted barracks (Building 620).COMPLETED: Davis BarracksScott BarracksMacArthur BarracksPershing BarracksEisenhower BarracksGrant BarracksBradley BarracksIN PROGRESS:Ridgway Barracks: Estimated completion date - 2027Sherman Barracks: Estimated completion date - 2027 Learn more about military infrastructure upgrades Learn more about West Point housing Community Infrastructure and Enabling Efforts Our enabling efforts comprise those things that underpin the day-to-day execution of our mission. This includes community support facilities such as fitness centers, education centers, garrison support facilities, DoDEA schools, commissary, hospital, and dental clinic.Perhaps the most important of these facilities is the supporting utility infrastructure grid that powers, services, and otherwise enables all things on West Point to function. This also includes our installation housing elements which, although privatized, will also be worked into our overarching plan.With the recent addition to Keller Army Community Hospital, we are now in phase two of the broader hospital renovation. The new DoDEA elementary school will help launch educational capabilities for the children of our community into the 21st century with modern facilities to enable modern teaching pedagogies. It is capabilities like Keller and our secondary schools on West Point that help us attract the highest-quality military and civilian staff, faculty, and coaches. Over a Century of Continuous Transformation At the turn of the 20th century, the Army and Congress decided that after 100 years of operation, it was “time to rebuild the Academy.” Beginning in 1902, the Academy would see three major renovation periods, each one roughly 30 years apart, with the last (and most recent) occurring in the mid- to late 1960s. Each of those efforts involved major physical expansion – either in terms of simply expanding the footprint (as in 1902) or building new/larger infrastructure to accommodate expansion in the Corps of Cadets (which doubled in size in the 1930s, and then again in the 1960s to the 4,400 we know today). View a major renovations timeline since 1901 Cadet library and observatory with old cadet chapel to right and the Plain in foreground (circa 1860) Aerial view of West Point (circa 1907) Cadets perform calisthenics in the Central Barracks area (circa 1904) Construction of an addition to old Cadet Mess (circa 1903) - site of the current Grant Hall East Academic Building (circa 1914) Old Cadet Guard House (circa 1913) - site of modern-day Scott Barracks West Academic Building (circa 1902) - site of current Pershing Barracks Old headquarters building (circa 1903) - site of current Taylor Hall Taylor Hall (headquarters building) and old riding hall (now Thayer Hall) (circa 1914) Construction of the south wing of Central Barracks (circa 1920) Construction of the south wing of Central Barracks (circa 1920) Michie Stadium across from Lusk Reservoir (circa late 1920s) Aerial view of USMA (circa 1959) View from Cadet Chapel looking east (circa 1960) Washington Hall (with Thayer Monument) (circa 1960)