Directorate Change

BAE SYSTEMS PLC
03 April 2007

BAE Systems plc

Directorate Change

Steve Mogford, an executive director of BAE Systems plc, will be leaving the
Company to take up an appointment with Finmeccanica.  Consequently, he will
retire from the BAE Systems Board immediately after the Company's Annual General
Meeting to be held on 9 May 2007.

Chairman, Dick Olver, said, 'Steve has enjoyed an outstanding career with BAE
Systems and we thank him for the contribution he has made to the Company.  I
would, in particular, like to thank him for the part he has played in our
continual drive to improve programme management performance and the major roles
he has successfully undertaken on the Typhoon and re-baselined Nimrod MR4A and
Astute submarine programmes.'


3 April 2007




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