Tom Arseneault, president and chief operating officer of BAE Systems’ U.S. subsidiary and a former Wash100 Award recipient, has been appointed to take a new dual role as president and CEO beginning on April 1. He will succeed Jerry DeMuro, who assumed the chief executive position in 2014 and a 2019 Wash100 winner.

BAE Systems has secured a four-year, $249.1M contract modification to deliver self-propelled howitzer artillery systems, carrier unit, tracked vehicles, ammunition and related support services to the U.S. Army.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded BAE Systems a contract to develop two cybersecurity tools designed to protect electronic files as part of DARPA's Safe Documents program.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has chosen BAE Systems to create a semi-autonomous technology that would help military personnel to plan missions. BAE will develop the Multi-domain Adaptive Request Service software to facilitate automatic battlespace data collection across air, sea, land and space domains, the company said Tuesday.

BAE Systems has won a potential $104.8M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide technical and engineering support for various systems installed at shore facilities and aboard surface combatants of the U.S. Navy.

BAE Systems, Continental Maritime and General Dynamics' (NYSE: GD) NASSCO subsidiary have collectively received a $299.3M increase to a contract for maintenance and availability support for U.S. Navy surface combatant ships.

BAE Systems has been selected to develop a radar jamming technology for the U.S. Army's unmanned and rotary-wing aircraft platforms. The company said Tuesday its FAST Labs research and development arm will work to integrate adaptive radio frequency sensing and jamming features into a single platform.

BAE Systems will produce 30 amphibious combat vehicles for the U.S. Marine Corps under a three-year, $119.9M contract modification.

BAE Systems has received a $36.7M contract from the U.S. Navy to build and test a radio-frequency countermeasures system intended to protect aircraft against missile threats.

BAE Systems has received a potential $437M task order under the General Services Administration’s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services contract to provide open source support services for the U.S. Army.