Governance rules for testing and certification offer a case in point. The traditional approach to DOD testing takes too much time. This was a problem even during the era of stand-alone system development. In the coming era of rapidly deployed, network-centric capabilities and services, new, streamlined governance strategies are essential to flattening, if not eliminating, IT testing and certification speed bumps. Otherwise, DOD and the government will miss the benefits from a new generation of Web 2.0 technologies. More…