Academic Infrastructure and Capabilities Contact the USMA 2035 team Academic Infrastructure and Capabilities Contact the USMA 2035 team Breadcrumb about modernization plan academic infrastructure Registrar (left) MENU Academy Leadership Developing Leaders of Character History of West Point Modernization Plan Accreditation & Assessment Visit the Academy Academic Calendar Academic Infrastructure and Capabilities Our academic infrastructure and capabilities upgrade program is a 15-year effort to modernize our academic infrastructure and provide new and innovative ways to facilitate intellectual development at levels on par with, or ahead of, peer institutions with whom we compete for talent. These efforts will allow us to bring our academic infrastructure well into the 21st century while simultaneously overcoming a deficit of 715,000 square feet of academic space (lab space, general instruction space, and collaboration space). This includes a reorganization of our academic disciplines and other programmatic enablers to facilitate more effective interdisciplinary collaboration and integration, as well as a more coherent consolidation of our military, leader, and character development capabilities.Ultimately, these efforts are about Army readiness, which USMA contributes to by attracting the best and brightest talent possible, developing them into high-performing leaders of character, and then providing the Army with the professional core of every annual cohort of newly commissioned officers. Academic Building Upgrade Program (ABUP) The keystone for our overarching modernization effort is the Academic Building Upgrade Program (ABUP), a holistic 15- to 17-year program involving the renovation of seven antiquated facilities, some more than 100 years old, which are critical to delivering academic, military, and character development programs. Learn more about the ABUP Cyber & Engineering Academic Center (CEAC) The Cyber and Engineering Academic Center (CEAC), a 136,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility, will modernize USMA’s engineering, technology, and cyber education capabilities and enable us to remain at the forefront of engineering education. This new building will include laboratories with support space, project fabrication spaces, high bay areas with overhead lifts, workspaces, conference rooms, spray booths, and an assortment of other advanced capabilities for our engineering disciplines. Learn more about the CEAC