* Alternate QDR: “We cannot reverse the decline of shipbuilding, buy enough naval aircraft, recapitalize Army equipment, buy the F-35 requirement, purchase a new aerial tanker, increase deep strike capability, and recapitalize the bomber fleet just by saving $10-15 billion dollars that the Department of Defense hopes to save through acquisition reform.”
* Oh My Gosh: Oshkosh’s defense segment sales nearly triple to $1.7 billion in the firm’s fiscal year 2010 third quarter fueled by M-ATV sales. Oshkosh release
* Meanwhile, Voice of America says that troops love them, but there’s at least one M-ATV design issue Oshkosh might want to look at.
* With a Little Help: ITT snags two US Army Corps of Engineers contracts worth up to $800 million to help the Afghan Army and other sections of the Afghanistan National Security Forces operate and maintain facilities and train personnel.
* The US/UK’s AFRICAP program will provide Thales tactical radios for the Congo’s armed forces.
* Hurry Up: The British government tells ITT to speed up its delivery of 11,000 third-generation helmet-mounted night vision goggles to early next year, BBC reports.
* That So Modular: BAE Systems gets a $9.6 million order for US Army modular quick-release backpacks, known as Modular Lightweight Load Carrying Equipment (MOLLE).
* WGS-3 high-bandwidth, secure communications satellite formally enters service with USAF.
* Boeing delivers its 100th CH-47F heavy-lift helicopter.
* Raytheon delivers its 200th APG-79 AESA radar to Boeing, for use of Super Hornet family fighters.
* The US supply chain, which is heavily IT-dependent, is vulnerable to disruption from cyber attack, warns a new report [pdf] from the US Naval Institute and CACI.