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GIS Needs Assesment for West Point
Description  The West Point installation is an area of military and national significance in many ways.
It is simultaneously a premier university for training military officers, a functioning
military base, a National Historic Landmark, and a tourist attraction. Its size,
organization, and management responsibilities also make it the equivalent of a typical
city or county. The activities and requirements of the many ongoing base functions
necessitate a well integrated approach to information management. Bowne
was contracted by the Army Corps to identify
the requirements for a GIS within DHPW, develop an Implementation Plan, and create a
prototype viewer to demonstrate the proposed system’s features.
One of Bowne's key recommendations was the need to expand the concept of a DHPW GIS
into an Enterprise system for use by the entire Academy. Our recommendations
to the Corps and the Academy coincided with the Assistant Chief of Staff for
Installation Management (ACSIM) of the Department of the Army releasing a memorandum requiring
Army GIS programs and offices to begin establishing integrated GIS data and systems to
allow for sharing across functional areas and at all Army levels. Although there was no
advance knowledge about this memorandum, Bowne’s recommendations were in total alignment with
the ACSIM’s directive.
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