BAE Systems' information and electronic systems business has secured a $74.9M contract from the U.S. Navy to provide 1,440 radio frequency countermeasure systems for domestic and international defense customers.

BAE Systems has launched a new center to advance the use of robotic process automation and machine learning tools to support national security missions.

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.