Director/PDMR Shareholding

BAE SYSTEMS PLC
24 January 2007


BAE SYSTEMS plc


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



1.  Notification made in accordance with Section 324 (as extended by Section
328) of the Companies Act 1985 and Disclosure rule 3.1.4R(1)(a) of the
Disclosure Rules.



The Company has today been notified by the trustee of the BAE Systems Share
Incentive Plan, Hill Samuel ESOP Trustees Limited, that on 22 January 2007 the
following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ('PDMRs') purchased
ordinary shares of 2.5 pence each in BAE Systems plc under the Partnership
Shares and Matching Shares elements of the BAE Systems Share Incentive Plan at a
price of 421.75 pence per share.  The transactions took place on the London
Stock Exchange.  The shares are held in the name of Lloyds TSB Registrars
Corporate Nominee Limited.


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 acquired -            Ordinary shares acquired -
                             Partnership Shares                    Matching Shares
Steve Mogford                29                                    3
Ian King                     30                                    3



24 January 2007






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