Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 4131I

BAE SYSTEMS PLC

18 November 2008

BAE SYSTEMS plc

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

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

The Company was notified today by the trustee of the BAE Systems Share Incentive Plan, Equiniti Share Plan Trustees Limited, that on 14 November 2008 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 364.57 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 for the Partnership Shares took place on the London Stock Exchange; the Matching Shares were sourced from Treasury Shares.

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

Name of PDMR	Number of BAE Systems plc Ordinary shares purchased - Partnership Shares	Number of BAE Systems plc Ordinary shares acquired - Matching Shares
Philip Bramwell	35	17
Andrew Davies	34	17
Alan Garwood	34	17
Guy Griffiths	34	17
Alastair Imrie	35	17
Ian King	34	17
Charlotte Lambkin	35	17
George Rose	35	17
Nigel Whitehead	17	17