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JOBS BOOST LINKED TO NEW JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER

The region’s set to benefit from hundreds of new jobs, with the maintenance contract for the RAAF’s Joint Strike Fighter awarded to a Williamtown-based company.

BAE Systems will be responsible for supporting the new jet, which is due to touch down in Australia in 2019.

“So basically everything needed for a JSF is going to have to come through either this facility, or us providing support over on the base to make sure the JSF can be supported for maybe the next four or five decades.”

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