A Delicate Balance: Portfolio Analysis and Management for Intelligence Information Dissemination Programs

This description of the application of the RAND Corporation's PortMan portfolio analysis and management method for the National Security Agency (NSA) Information Sharing Services (ISS) division demonstrates how PortMan (1) enables the data-driven analysis of project portfolios and (2) provides a means for monitoring the progress of potentially high-value projects and associated risk-mitigation strategies.

RAND developed two sets of metrics to help ISS estimate the expected value of the …