Director/PDMR Shareholding

BAE SYSTEMS PLC
16 January 2008



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 January 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 492.93
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              25                                    12

Alastair Imrie               25                                    12

Ian King                     25                                    12

George Rose                  25                                    12

Nigel Whitehead              12                                    12

Alison Wood                  25                                    12

16 January 2008


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