Ai Group and Lockheed Martin Australia have welcomed the Government's announcement to acquire the first batch of new generation Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft.
Quickstep Holdings has signed an MOU with Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman intended to secure in excess of $700 million worth of potential contracts for the F-35 JSF.
Project: Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) FORMED in 1990, Aerostaff Australia remains the only accredited aerospace sheetmetal facility in Australia to this day.
BEING an engineer in a previous life, I tend to stick to the facts and I’m not renowned for flamboyant comments, but for those readers who were at Doltone House, Darling Harbour May 28th they will understand why I describe the 2008 Endeavour Awards presentation ceremony as a fantastic ‘best-ever’
AS most MM readers will remember, I was never a ‘true-believer’ of the way the Howard government treated our manufacturing industry. His hands-off policy might have been fine in the ivory towers of Canberra, but out in the real world of industry it was another matter.