Rapid Fire 2010-02-05: QRD 2010

Feb 04, 2010 20:40 UTC by Defense Industry Daily staff

  • London-based IISS’s annual military balance report warns that cyber warfare threat is growing.

  • Georgian satellite channel taken off-air by French firm as a condition of the proposed Mistral Class amphibious ship sale.

  • Eurojet says it will share single-crystal engine blade technologies with India if Eurofighter wins MMRCA, or EJ200 engine is selected for the LCA Tejas Mk2.

  • US Intel community funds power-generating silicone implants. No, really.

  • Is a Golden Age of the Silicon Economy just ahead of us? That’s silicON – but if the above is true, we suppose it could be silicone…

  • Northrop Grumman posts higher quarterly sales across nearly all of its businesses. What do the analysts have to say?

  • Canada’s CAE gets C$58 million ($54 million) in Germany military contracts, including several contracts to provide flight simulator upgrade, maintenance and training support.

  • Spiderman gets military assignment: DARPA’s web crawler device could enable US special ops forces to scale walls.

  • IBM to develop secure cloud computing for US Air Force networks.

  • US Air Force mulls $2 billion order for 100 light-weight armed counter-insurgency planes.

  • The Royal Navy flagship HMS Illustrious arrives in Scotland to undergo a £40 million ($63 million) maintenance and upgrade program.

  • Barak LR-SAM with 120 km range to fly in August 2010?

  • Canada’s submarines – finally operational by 2012?

  • Is a shortfall in the number of Pashto interpreters threatening the Afghan war effort?

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