* 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?