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Title A delicate balance : portfolio analysis and management for intelligence information dissemination programs / Eric Landree [and others].

Publication Info. Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 44 pages) : color illustrations
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 43-44).
Contents Introduction: the basics of portfolio management -- The RAND PortMan method -- PortMan evaluation of the NSA ISS portfolio -- Conclusions.
Summary This publication describes the application of the RAND Corporation's Portfolio Analysis and Management Method (PortMan) to the evaluation of the National Security Agency's (NSA) information dissemination program portfolio, which is managed by the NSA Information Sharing Services (ISS) division. RAND's PortMan method enables the data-driven analysis of project portfolios and provides a means to monitor the progress of potentially high-value projects. It also allows portfolio managers to monitor the impact of any mitigation strategies they undertake, ensuring that the portfolio's highest potential value is achieved. For this project, RAND researchers first employed the Delphi method, a process for eliciting group opinion by a series of questionnaires with selective feedback from earlier responses, to collect expert opinion from the ISS Senior Leadership Group. This allowed for an estimation of value and risk for each project. RAND then used these estimates, together with cost information provided by ISS, to develop project rankings and to estimate the expected value-to-cost ratio for each project. RAND selected portfolios of projects that maximized the total expected value for the available program budget using a linear programming method and compared these results to ISS management's funding priorities.
Note Print version record.
Subject United States. National Security Agency/Central Security Service.
Intelligence service -- United States.
Intelligence service -- United States -- Management.
Project management.
Program budgeting.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
COMPUTERS -- Data Modeling & Design.
Added Author Landree, Eric.
United States. National Security Agency/Central Security Service.
National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
Other Form: Print version: Delicate balance. Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2009 9780833049094 (DLC) 2009051678 (OCoLC)489441347
ISBN 9780833049445 (electronic bk.)
0833049445 (electronic bk.)
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