Isaac R. Porche III

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Associate Director, Force Development and Technology Program, RAND Arroyo Center; Senior Engineer
Pittsburgh Office

Education

Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science, University of Michigan; M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science, University of California, Berkeley; B.S. in electrical engineering, Southern University

Overview

Biography

Isaac Porche is a senior engineer at the RAND Corporation. His areas of expertise include cybersecurity; network and communication technology; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR); information assurance; and computer network defense. He has led research projects for the U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Joint Staff, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He is a member of the U.S. Army Science Board, serving on the data-to-decisions panel. He is also exploring the Army role in cyberspace. In addition, he has assessed collaboration and information-sharing issues, and modeling and simulation of tactical network communication technologies. For the Navy N2/N6, he is leading an ISR-related study of the intelligence cycle. For DHS, he is coleading an effort to study emergency alerting with text messages. He has published articles in the Military Operations Research on "The Impact of Networking on Warfighter Effectiveness" (2007) and "Game-Theoretic Methods for Analysis of Tactical Decision-Making Using Agent-Based Combat Simulations" (2009). His RAND publications include Future Army Bandwidth Needs and Capabilities (with Leland Joe, 2004); The Impact of Network Performance on Warfighter Effectiveness (with Bradley Wilson, 2006); Navy Network Dependability: Models, Metrics, and Tools (Porche et al., 2010); and, most recently, Finding Services for an Open Architecture: A Review of Existing Applications and Programs in PEO C4I (Porche et al., 2011). Porche also studies auto industry technology trends as a consultant for Automotive News.

Porche received his M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan.

Concurrent Non-RAND Positions

Member, Army Science Board

Previous Positions

Project Engineer, General Motors Electric Vehicles; Transportation Research Engineer, Environmental Research Institute of Michigan; Associate Engineer, General Motors Advanced Engineering

Recent Projects

  • Role of the Army in Cyberspace
  • Commercial Message Alert System
  • Navy Network Reliability
  • TCPED Intelligence Cycle Process Study
  • Rapid Acquisition of Computer Network Defense Systems

Selected Publications

Isaac R. Porche, III, Jerry M. Sollinger, and Shawn McKay, A Cyberworm That Knows No Boundaries, RAND Corporation (OP-342), 2011

Isaac R. Porche, III, et al., Finding Services for an Open Architecture: A Review of Existing Applications and Programs in PEO C4I, RAND (MG-1071), 2011

Isaac R. Porche, III, et al., Navy Network Dependability: Models, Metrics, and Tools, RAND Corporation (MG-1003), 2010

Yevgeniy Vorobeychik and Isaac R. Porche, "Game-Theoretic Methods for Analysis of Tactical Decision-Making Using Agent-Based Combat Simulations," Military Operations Research, 14(4):21–39, 2009

Isaac R. Porche, III, and Bradley Wilson, The Impact of Network Performance on Warfighter Effectiveness, RAND Corporation (TR-329), 2006

Isaac R. Porche, III, Henry H. Willis, and Martin Ruszkowski, Framework for Quantifying Uncertainty in Electric Ship Design, RAND Corporation (DB-407), 2004

Leland Joe and Isaac R. Porche, III, Future Army Bandwidth Needs and Capabilities, RAND Corporation (MG-156), 2004

Honors & Awards

  • 2011 Silver Award, RAND
  • 2008 Bronze Award, RAND
  • 2005 Finalist, Best Paper, 10th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium

Recent Media Appearances

Interviews: Defense News; Investor's Business Daily; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; Washington Times

Commentary: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Commentary

Could Bin Laden's Death Prompt a Cyber Attack? — May 6, 2011

  • RAND.org and GlobalSecurity.org

Stuxnet Is the World's Problem — Dec 9, 2010

  • Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists