BAE Systems’ Australian subsidiary will supply critical software and hardware sub-assemblies in support of the Evolved Seasparrow Missile Block 2 program under a three-year, $50 million full-rate production contract with Raytheon Technologies’ missiles and defense business. ESSM is a surface-to-air missile designed to protect combat ships from anti-ship cruise missiles, BAE said Wednesday. BAE Systems […] More

BAE Systems has developed a new head-up display to provide commercial and military aircraft pilots with a lightweight and compact technology for flight situational awareness. The recently unveiled LiteWave platform is powered by the company-patented waveguide technology, allows for digital display adjustment to align with the pilot’s flying position and has the size of a […] More

BAE Systems has opened a new manufacturing facility in Manchester, New Hampshire, to support the development of electronic warfare technology for domestic and international military customers. The defense contractor said Monday the 200,000-square-foot building houses office spaces, laboratories and engineering facilities and will accommodate its workforce development plan in the state. BAE aims to hire […] More

The Air Force Research Laboratory has selected BAE Systems to develop warfighting models that the U.S. military can employ to overwhelm adversaries with complexity. The company said Wednesday it secured a three-year, $2.8 million Complexity Modeling in Multiple Domains contract to create complex attack techniques to confuse adversaries and hinder their ability to respond to […] More

BAE Systems has partnered with Hadean to identify opportunities where the former’s military training expertise could be applied to the distributed computing company’s unified platform. The collaboration looks to enable warfighters to train on a synthetic environment for air, land, sea, space and cyber operations for enhanced decision support and situational awareness, BAE said Tuesday. […] More

GE Aviation has selected BAE Systems to provide equipment needed for a NASA research project aimed at developing a megawatt-class hybrid electronic propulsion system for single-aisle aircraft. As part of the GE-led initiative, BAE said Thursday it will design, test and produce energy management components including controls, cables and batteries for the hybrid electric technology […] More

The U.S. Marine Corps has asked BAE Systems to look into the possibility of equipping the Amphibious Combat Vehicle with a reconnaissance payload technology intended for data collection and over-the-horizon target detection functions. BAE said Thursday it will study a potential command, control, communication, computers and unmanned aerial systems variant of the military vehicle developed […] More

BAE Systems has secured a year-long contract from the U.S. Space Force to create a mission data framework that Space Systems Command can use to link separate, interoperable sources and enable data fusion and discovery. The company said Wednesday it will develop and test an integrated data management environment for SSC’s Enterprise Management and Control […] More

BAE Systems’ research and development arm will continue developing radio frequency mixed-mode circuit designs for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under a Phase 2 award worth $5 million. The company said Wednesday its FAST Labs will work on integrated RF analog and digital electronics for the second phase of the Technologies for Mixed-mode Ultra […] More

BAE Systems has won a potential $95.2 million contract to update, repair and maintain USS Mustin, a guided missile destroyer in the U.S. Navy’s Arleigh Burke class. The company’s San Diego Ship Repair business in California will help Naval Sea Systems Command carry out the fiscal 2022 depot modernization project for DDG-89, the Department of […] More

BAE Systems‘ land and armaments systems business will manufacture and deliver additional amphibious combat vehicles to the U.S. Marine Corps under a $173.6 million modification to an existing contract with the service branch. The award exercises options for 36 full-rate production vehicles and raises the contract’s total cumulative value to $1.73 billion, the Department of […] More

BAE Systems has proposed its amphibious tracked vehicle for a U.S. Army contract to produce an all-terrain vehicle that can operate in the Arctic and other extreme cold weather environments. The company said Wednesday it offered its Beowulf vehicle after completing the prototype assessment phase of the service’s Cold Weather All-Terrain Vehicle program. In January, […] More