Systems Engineering Capstone Project: 
As part of their Systems Engineering Capstone, Cadets Jackson Matheson, Frank Fink, Neal Covell, and Patrick Hart installed a Slingshot Tag-Track-Locate (TTL) GPS repeater at the OSD Technical Support and Operational Assessment (TSOA) 14-1 Activity at Camp Roberts, California. The project is focused on developing a ground truth assessment process for determining the accuracy of Army ground radar systems being used in deployable force protection. Their pilot experiment was in collaboration with U.S. Army NVESD, Dept of Energy Special Technologies Laboratory, and ARL Unique Mission Cell.
Civil Rights Seminar: The History Department hosted a Civil Rights Seminar which included two USMA ’56 graduates discussing their experiences with forcibly desegregating schools in Arkansas. These two graduates served with the 101st Airborne surrounding Little Rock Central High and protecting the Little Rock Nine in 1957.
A Visit with the First Lady: Cadet Allie Sutherland, a Systems Engineering major and recipient of a Rotary Scholarship, visited COL Ricardo Morales in the White House. COL Morales, who has been selected to be the Deputy Head of the Systems Department, is currently serving as the Executive Director of Joining Forces and works directly for the First Lady. While there, the two met in the First Lady’s personal office (no pictures allowed!) to discuss Mrs. Obama’s the Joining Forces initiative (http://www.whitehouse.gov/joiningforces) and her future education options
XH 415 “Genocide” and HI 345 “Modern Africa” Joint Exercise: The exercise was developed as a cooperative project, bringing together the Peacekeeping and Security Operations Institute of the Army War College, the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at West Point, and the Department of History. The exercise required cadets to develop and then critique a mission analysis in response to a potential mass atrocity scenario in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Most Read Climate Change Blog: Cadet Ashley Ziegler's blog post: "India's Assam Shows Second-Order, Dangerous Effects of Climate Change in South Asia" was one of the most-read posts of last year on New Security Beat: http://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2013/12/top-10-posts-2013-2/#.UsWWKPRDt8E. Her post is the culmination of the work she did this past summer as an intern at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC.