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Rapid Fire 2010-02-05: QRD 2010

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

US QDR 2010 (Quadrennial Defense Review) in bullet points. Plus, some questions to think about. And what about small business and innovation?
US Army to spend $7 billion to develop replacement for cancelled FCS manned ground vehicles.
Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security (IPRIS) – Using BRIC to build at sea: The Brazil-China aircraft carrier agreement and shifting naval power [PDF].

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?

Categories: Americas - Other, Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Corporate Financials, DARPA, Electronics - General, Equipment - Other, Europe - Other, IT - Cyber-Security, IT - General, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, R&D - Contracted, Simulation & Training, Specialty Aircraft, Support Functions - Other, Surface Ships - Combat, T&C - IBM, USA

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