Modernization Plan

Known as USMA 2035, the Academy is undergoing a holistic 15-20 year modernization effort to renovate, retrofit, and modernize facilities, capabilities, and infrastructure to provide the most highly qualified, capable, and ready officers of tomorrow.

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Modernization Plan

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Storied History - 22nd Century Capabilities

These efforts will enable us to execute our mission to meet the Army’s need by providing the most highly qualified, capable, and ready officers. This effort will also ensure that USMA remains postured to sustain, modernize, and secure its position as the preeminent leader development institution in the world.

The modernization wave is upon us once again. But while past efforts focused on physical expansion, this new effort –USMA 2035 – focuses on expanding capabilities, bringing West Point firmly into the 21st century, with an eye on the 22nd.

This holistic effort, which began in 2013 with the Cadet Barracks Upgrade Program and encompasses all aspects of our leader development mission, centers around four major lines of effort.

Featured Modernization Efforts

Michie Stadium Preservation Project

Michie east stands renovation
Spring 2024 - Fall 2026

Michie Stadium, home to Army football, is a critical portal through which the Academy 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 stadium 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

Thayer Hall

The linchpin of USMA’s Academic Building Upgrade Program
Renovation beginning in 2028

Built in 1909 as a riding hall where cadets were taught horsemanship, Thayer Hall was converted to an academic building in 1958. This massive facility currently houses the Departments of History, Mathematical Sciences, Behavioral Sciences & Leadership (BS&L) and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, as well as the Academy’s Audio, Visual and Media Support division. Beyond this, it is a mainstay for nearly every other department’s teaching needs, including the Academy’s Character Education and Military Science programs.

Following its renovation, which will include the addition of two floors, Thayer Hall will become the “hub” for USMA’s humanities disciplines (History, BS&L, Social Sciences, Law, Foreign Languages, and English & Philosophy).

Learn about the Academic Building Upgrade Program Learn more about upgrades to academic infrastructure

Cadet Barracks Upgrade Program

2017 - 2027

The Cadet Barracks Upgrade Program (CBUP) is a 10-year effort to completely renovate and modernize all eight existing cadet barracks. This program includes the construction of the new Davis Barracks, completed in FY2017, and one regular permanent party enlisted barracks (Building 620), which is currently underway.

COMPLETED:
- Scott Barracks
- MacArthur Barracks
- Pershing Barracks
- Eisenhower Barracks
- Grant Barracks
- Bradley Barracks
- Bldg. 620
IN PROGRESS:
- Ridgway Barracks: Estimated Completion Date - 2025
- Sherman Barracks: Estimated Completion Date - 2025

Learn more about upgrades to military infrastructure Learn more about housing at West Point

Community Infrastructure & 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, the DoDEA schools, the commissary, the hospital, and the 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 completion of the addition to Keller Army Community Hospital, we are now in phase two of the broader hospital renovation. The recently completed new DoDEA elementary school will help to launch the 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 to 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-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 1930’s, and then again in the 1960’s to the 4,400 we know today).

View a timeline of major renovations since 1901