* US, French defense chiefs ink agreement on space situational awareness.
* Global defense firm are vying for a piece of India’s defense industry, which Boeing expects to be worth $31 billion in 10 years.
* Bridge over the River Arghandab?: Portable bridges produced by Alpha Composites help British troops in Helmand province, Afghanistan, cross short gaps in terrain.
* AAR to shut down former Blackwater operations in Currituck County, NC, affecting 260 employees.
* USMC Captain Eric Schmidt sentenced to 6 years by federal judge for skimming nearly $2 million using fraudulent military equipment orders.
* Would you like some Bubba Gump Shrimp?: The US Defense Commissary Agency is buying up Gulf seafood to serve at 72 base commissaries along the East Coast to boost the Gulf’s fishing industry.
* L-3 Communications to redeem $650 million in notes due 2015.
* US administration has been slow to implement cybersecurity protection for critical infrastructure, CSIS says [PDF].
* Do. Not. Mess. With a Gurkha. Not even if you have 39 friends behind you. Good on his regiment, too…