Directorate Change

BAE SYSTEMS PLC
08 August 2007



                               Directorate change


Chris Geoghegan, an executive director of BAE Systems plc, will be leaving the
Company at the end of the year and will consequently retire from the BAE Systems
plc board on 31 December 2007.

Chairman, Dick Olver, said, 'Chris has enjoyed an outstanding career with BAE
Systems and we are most appreciative of the contribution he has made to the
Company.  Having spent much of his earlier career managing the Company's
commercial aerospace interests, Chris has latterly completed the re-organisation
and rationalisation of the Company's European operations and partnerships, and
we thank him for bringing this to a successful conclusion.'


8 August 2007


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BAE Systems plc
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