BAE Systems has landed the prime spot on a five-year, $26.7M task order to help the Department of the Navy implement an infrared countermeasures system across a fleet of tanker and transport aircraft.

BAE Systems has tapped Kongsberg to design and build up to 150 remote 30-millimeter medium caliber turrets in support of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Amphibious Combat Vehicle-30 effort.

BAE Systems has reported infrastructure, product and integration milestones a year after it completed the acquisition of unmanned underwater vehicle provider Riptide Autonomous Solutions in support of its research-and-development arm FAST Labs.

BAE Systems’ land and armaments business has secured a 38-month, $42.8M contract modification to manufacture and deliver missile launching system canisters and associated hardware to the U.S. Navy and foreign military sales clients from Australia, Japan, Norway, the Netherlands and Turkey.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected BAE Systems to provide a cloud-based, government-tailored analytics service that uses machine learning to automate the delivery of situational awareness.

Don Widener, technical director of advanced analytics lab and ISR analysis portfolio at BAE Systems, told Unite.AI in an interview published Tuesday about the company’s partnership with UiPath to deliver machine learning and automation capabilities to the intelligence community and defense agencies through a robotic operations center.

Jerry DeMuro, CEO of BAE Systems’ U.S. subsidiary and a three-time Wash100 award winner, and Tom Arseneault, company president and chief operating officer and a 2020 Wash100 awardee, told C4ISRNET in an interview published Monday about the opportunities they see in the company’s proposed acquisition of two businesses from Raytheon and United Technologies Corp.

Executive Mosaic is pleased to present Tom Arseneault, president and chief operating officer of BAE Systems Inc., as an inductee of the 2020 Wash100 Award for driving company expansion through major acquisitions, which will continue to boost BAE’s defense capabilities.

Lockheed Martin has awarded BAE Systems a contract to design and produce an infrared seeker technology for a weapon system used to defend against ballistic missile threats. The next seeker for Lockheed's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense platform will be designed to increase the performance and manufacturability of THAAD to counter more threats, BAE said Tuesday.

BAE Systems has completed a demonstration of its Hedgehog semiconductor built to support radio frequency sensing functions and support communications with unmanned aerial systems in contested environments.

BAE Systems has received a contract of an undisclosed sum from the U.S. Army through the NATO Support and Procurement Agency to provide additional units of the Bonus munition designed to repel armored targets.

BAE Systems has completed a flight test for a solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicle designed for long-duration flights in the stratosphere.

A BAE Systems research and development organization has secured funds from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create a data analytics technology for government analysts to detect and deter the use of weapons of mass destruction.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 10, 2020 — Ravi Ravichandran, an executive with over two decades of experience in the technology sector, has been elevated to vice president and chief technology officer of BAE Systems’ intelligence and security segment, GovCon Wire reported Jan. 29.

Tom Arseneault, president and chief operating officer of BAE Systems’ U.S. subsidiary and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, said the two business units the company agreed to acquire from Raytheon and United Technologies Corp. will "bolt into existing businesses" within BAE Systems Inc.’s electronic systems sector, Inside Defense reported Monday.