BAE Systems has secured a follow-on contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create machine learning tools for U.S. military personnel to gain space situational awareness.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded BAE Systems a $369M contract modification to continue supporting parts and subsystems used in radar, telemetry and optical instrumentation tracking platforms.

A report by consulting firm McAleese & Associates says BAE Systems’ U.S. electronic systems sector saw its sales climb 11 percent to $2.8B during the first half of 2019 with a 14.8 percent operating margin and sector profit of $409M.

A business unit of BAE Systems will engineer and integrate systems the U.S. Army uses to defend rotary and fixed-wing aircraft against missile threats as part of a potential seven-year, $242.2M contract. The company's information and electronic systems integration business will a provide integration, engineering, logistics and technical support for the OT-225 Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasures System and the AN/AAR-57(V) Common Missile Warning System, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.

BAE Systems has received a potential $88M contract modification from the U.S. Army to provide long lead materials and associated parts for carrier ammunition-tracked vehicles and howitzers.

BAE Systems has received a potential $45M contract from the U.S. Army to develop a prototype of the Extended Range Cannon Artillery designed to increase the rate and range of fire on M109A7 self-propelled howitzers.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 10, 2019 — BAE Systems will work to update radio-frequency processing equipment with machine learning technology, as well as deliver and demonstrate the resulting hardware products, under a $4.7M contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday.

Mark Safran, a 17-year veteran of BAE Systems' U.S. subsidiary, has joined Dewberry as associate vice president of geospatial and technology services. He will concurrently serve as a senior program manager based in Dewberry's Fairfax, Va., office and brings more than three decades of business development and program management experience in the spatial domain, the company said Tuesday.

BAE Systems, Serco Inc. and Scientific Research Corp. have won 10-year contracts worth up to $1.81B combined to provide integrated command, control, communications, computers and intelligence systems for the U.S. Navy's shipbuilding programs. Contractors will help the service branch engineer, fabricate, assemble, test, install and perform logistics work on C4I system of systems aboard large deck amphibious ships and new construction aircraft carriers, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.

BAE Systems' U.S. subsidiary, ENGlobal and KBRwyle (NYSE: KBR) have won spots on a potential five-year, $124M contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to install automated fuel systems.