Directorate Change

BAE SYSTEMS PLC
24 March 2004


BAE Systems plc -Appointment of Non-Executive Director and Chairman

The Board of BAE Systems plc has agreed that Dick Olver will be appointed a
non-executive Director of the Company on 17 May 2004 and will succeed Sir
Richard Evans as Chairman on 1 July 2004.

Sir Richard Evans will retire from the Board on 1 July 2004.

Mr Olver is currently Deputy Chief Executive of BP p.l.c. and Senior Independent
Director of Reuters Group plc.


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