Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.
Before joining Aviation Week in 2006 he was a macroeconomics, politics and aerospace journalist with Reuters. Perrett holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Macquarie University, Sydney. He left Aviation Week in 2020.
Northrop Grumman has licensed Australian composites technology company Quickstep to make parts for the Lockheed Martin F-35, taking a step toward issuing a contract for the supplier to build the components. Quickstep, which has developed a non-autoclave process for curing composites, will receive technical information for making the parts.
Air China will compete more strongly in the home territory of rival state carrier China Southern with a deal to take a majority shareholding in long-time target Shenzhen Airlines.
CRAY COMMISSIONED: Australia’s Defense Signals Directorate has commissioned a new Cray supercomputer that the government says will allow faster support by the intelligence agency. The computer also will help the directorate to respond to cyber-threats, according to Greg Combet, the minister for defense personnel, materiel and science. The directorate is equivalent to the U.S. National Security Agency and Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters, with which it works closely.
