Interesting Comments on Go As You Pay

I found a link to Mike Griffin's comments at the recent Space Transportation Association Breakfast. Overall the whole thing is well worth the read. Mike makes a lot of good points, but I think also made a few strawmen. I did find one paragraph that was particularly interesting (emphasis mine):

With "go-as-you-pay" in mind, we must be mindful that "time is money", especially during the development phase of our programs. While we sometimes have legitimate reasons to push the state of the art in certain technology areas for a mission, we need to be disciplined in doing so, and to encourage the use of off-the-shelf and commercial hardware in those areas where we don't need to push the state-of-the-art. When a delay is incurred as a result of trying to incorporate an immature technology, the whole program and the standing army supporting it are (sic) must wait, and costs will escalate. We need to rein in the number of technical miracles we think are necessary for a given program, and exercise schedule discipline in order to control costs.

Sounds kind of familiar, doesn't it?