Director/PDMR Shareholding

BAE SYSTEMS PLC
16 October 2007



BAE SYSTEMS plc



NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
OR THEIR CONNECTED PERSONS





Notification made in accordance with Disclosure rule 3.1.4R(1)(a) of the
Disclosure Rules.



The Company was today notified by the trustee of the BAE Systems Share Incentive
Plan, Hill Samuel ESOP Trustees Limited, that on 15 October 2007 the following
Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ('PDMRs') purchased ordinary
shares of 2.5 pence each in BAE Systems plc under the Partnership Shares element
of the BAE Systems Share Incentive Plan at a price of 514 pence per share and
were also awarded ordinary shares of 2.5p at nil consideration under the
Matching Shares element of the same share plan.  The transactions took place on
the London Stock Exchange.



The number of shares purchased or acquired by PDMRs is as follows:


Name of PDMR                 Number of BAE Systems plc             Number of BAE Systems plc
                             Ordinary shares purchased -           Ordinary shares acquired -
                             Partnership Shares                    Matching Shares
Philip Bramwell              24                                    12
Alastair Imrie               25                                    12
Ian King                     25                                    12
George Rose                  25                                    12
Nigel Whitehead              12                                    12
Alison Wood                  24                                    12





16 October 2007






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