Rapid Fire: 2011-03-17

• On this St. Patrick’s Day, check out Ireland’s Defense Forces Review 2010 [PDF].

• UK Army general to head government’s GBP 650 million cybersecurity effort.

• Former head of Air Force Space Command, Bob Butterworth, questions USAF’s new Evolutionary Acquisition for Space Strategy, as Air Force Under Secretary Erin Conaton faces House grilling on strategy.

• Aerospace and defense counterfeit parts may have “life or death” consequences, warns new AIA report [PDF].

• Northrop Grumman’s Sperry Marine unit gets subcontract from BAE Systems to upgrade the machinery control, alarm, and surveillance systems on 8 Royal Navy Hunt-class mine hunters.

• General Dynamics receives contract worth up to $260 million to support training programs at the US Army’s Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, KS.

• Up to $33 million to DynCorp to provide munitions logistics support to the US Army’s 1st Theater Sustainment Command in Kuwait under an SAIC contract.