Conception assistee par ordinateur (CAO) or computer assisted concept; thanks to computer technology, it took much less time for the Airbus engineers to design, build and test the A380 than it did with its predecessors (even if the latest is so much bigger).

Shouldn't the same be applied to the CEV?
All the Apollo and Gemini capsules of the past are still there; it shouldn't take forever to replace the Shuttle. The CEV is much smaller than the Shuttle.
A five year gap between 2010 and 2015 doesn't have to be required.
Griffin seems to understand this but he might not be there (heading NASA) in 2010.
Good luck to him.

Raoul