Isaac R. Porche III

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.