Indonesian Aerospace will advance its manufacturing technology by moving into aluminum-lithium alloys after Spirit Aerosystems of Wichita, Kan., awarded it a subcontract for Airbus A350 structures. The agreement is one of a series worth $600 million that Spirit is expected to sign with Asian structures suppliers at this week’s Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace exhibition in Malaysia, which began Dec. 1. Spirit is subcontracting work it is responsible for as prime contractor with Airbus.

—Ameco Beijing is making good progress in dealing with a maintenance manager’s nightmare: how to fill up huge additions to capacity coming on line in the middle of a severe global recession. “We’ve spent the last few years completing our expansion,” says chief executive and joint general manager Andreas Meisel. “Now our work is to utilize it.”

The new-generation fighter that China will field in 2017-2019 will be an improved J-10, the Chinese air force says, seemingly ruling out a genuine competitor to the Lockheed Martin F-22 and F-35. The clarification, citing an unnamed official, has appeared in a report published in English by the country’s most prestigious newspaper, the People’s Daily—which means that it is an announcement and that China wants foreigners to notice it.