When Gen. Douglas MacArthur articulated the phrase “Upon the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields, will bear the fruits of victory,” it fundamentally gets to the heart of being a competitor, through character, that goes beyond winning and losing, and the lessons learned through athletics leads to a confident, competent officer who has the mental and moral qualities to be a great leader on the battlefield. ...

To discover breakthroughs in engineering and give way to innovation in the military, the Warfighter Innovation and Science and Engineering (WISE) Challenge is the competing grounds in which the U.S. Naval, Coast Guard and Air Force Academies showcased projects they developed within the realm of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) throughout the academic year. As the U.S. Service Academies worked hard on their respective projects to win first prize, creating a distinct, pioneering technology that is service-specific or joint mission-related was their ultimate goal and was displayed on Monday at West Point. ...

The streets of Little Haiti gave him his bearings. He knew the neighborhood well enough, at a young age, to avoid the stereotypical traps that landed his father in prison and kept his old friends stuck in the slums of Miami. ...

The Academy Research Council and the Center for Enhanced Performance presented the 2021 Outstanding Pitch Award to three cadets April 13 at the Jefferson Hall Library. ...

Where does creative genius come from to produce artistic brilliance? It commences in the moment where ingenuity strikes from the deep recesses of the mind to the juncture when originality becomes an intellectual asset. For every artist of any form, the diligent work of the craft is worth every bead of sweat from the brow when the world positively recognizes the invested, exceptional outcome. ...

How do you host what is traditionally a four-day, on-site conference at West Point during a global pandemic? Through a virtual Microsoft Teams event, of course. ...

The Microsoft Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), in coordination with the U.S. Military Academy, performed a multi-day data collection exercise to enhance and train the IVAS device Squad Immersive Virtual Trainer (SiVT) AI-powered environmental mapping and device positional-tracking technology March 18-22 and April 8-12 at Range 16....

Raw emotions energized the moment as an ample number of shared memories synergized the atmosphere in reflecting on a 39-year military career and 43 years since arriving at the U.S. Military Academy. In honoring an exceptional and genuine person and a unique professional experience, the Corps of Cadets bid farewell and celebrated the Dean of the Academic Board Brig. Gen. Cindy Jebb with a Corps Farewell Banquet April 15, 2021, at the Cadet Mess Hall.  ...

“Every time I would listen to great leaders speak they would always say that experts become masters, not by pulling off the fanciest moves but by mastering the fundamentals,” Class of 2021 Cadet John Sweeney, the U.S. Military Academy Black team leader, said a day before the world’s premier 52nd Sandhurst Military Skills Competition began. Yet, unbeknown to himself and the 44 teams that competed this year, he and the rest of USMA Black would be holding the Reginald E. Johnson Memorial Saber marking his team’s victory on Saturday at the U.S. Military Academy. ...

To understand what the future cyber threat may look like, people need to think outside-the-box to allow for a flow of new and interesting ideas. Threatcasting is a methodology that provides this opportunity for government, DOD, public, private, industry and academia to come together and brainstorm the different possible futures to help provide ways to mitigate and combat future threats. ...