Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 8007L

BAE SYSTEMS PLC

16 January 2009

BAE SYSTEMS plc

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

Notification made in accordance with Rule 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 January 2009 the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ('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 381.6 pence per share and were also awarded ordinary shares of 2.5 pence 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	33	16
Andrew Davies	32	16
Alan Garwood	32	16
Guy Griffiths	33	16
Alastair Imrie	33	16
Ian King	32	16
Charlotte Lambkin	33	16
George Rose	33	16
Nigel Whitehead	17	16