Director/PDMR Shareholding

BAE SYSTEMS PLC
17 December 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, Equiniti Share Plan Trustees Limited, that on 14 December 2007 the
following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ('PDMRs') acquired
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 455.25
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       28                             13
Alastair Imrie        28                             13
Ian King              28                             13
George Rose           28                             13
Nigel Whitehead       14                             13
Alison Wood           27                             13


17 December 2007



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