Trade Analysis

Program and Portfolio Trade Analysis

Challenge: How to make the right program funding choices in a tough fiscal environment?

  • Manage delivery of required operational capabilities
  • Deliver quicker, less costly capabilities to the field
  • Do it all within a static or shrinking budget

Example: Office of the Secretary of Defense: Chemical and Biological Defense Program

Our portfolio decision modeling helps you foresee consequences of resource allocation options

  • See your current and projected status against key objectives and metrics
  • Link program delivery dates to capability objectives, and see critical interdependencies
  • Track and monitor dynamic factors such as cost, schedule, and performance
  • Drive resource allocations to best pursue your goals, informed by key data
  • Perform real-time “what if” drills, and see the results… and the unintended consequences

Challenge: Support the organization’s required participation in Agency “cut drills”, but manage risks to operational capability timelines and performance

Solution: A process and visualization that allows decision-makers to dynamically choose options and immediately see likely impact on their program portfolio’s cost, schedule, and performance objectives

Instant comparisons of alternative plans help you best allocate resources to achieve your goals