The partnership between Brazil and BAE Systems and its heritage companies dates back more than 100 years.
We have been building an ever stronger relationship with the Brazilian people and the nation’s Armed Forces and we have an exciting future ahead together. The company is proud to be a key technological partner providing competitive solutions that meet Brazil’s current and future needs.
BAE Systems is proud of its relationship with Brazil. The company continues to support the nation's industry and military today with several long-standing items of work stretching into the future ahead of us. From upgrading the Brazilian Army's M109A5+ self-propelled howitzers and M113 armoured personnel carriers to the Amazonas class ships for the Navy and Assault Amphibious Vehicles for the Marine Corps, BAE Systems supports the people on duty protecting Brazil.
Our company has a commitment to Brazil, to help to meet its future requirements with the shared objective of expanding of work, jobs and technology development in-country. We have a strong desire to meet Brazil’s forthcoming economic and defence objectives with excellence on land, at sea and in the air as well as further potential to collaborate across cyber and space to meet Brazil’s needs. Our strong, globally-proven capabilities in electric propulsion for buses, trucks, military and heavy vehicles can also meet society’s sustainability objectives affordably. Brazil will be a crucial partner for us on this journey to ecologically friendly municipal transport.
As a global organisation we do not work in the same way everywhere around the world. Different solutions and partnerships are needed in different countries and regions. It is important that we tailor our approach to the requirements of our customer, our country and our own company. In some places we import equipment from overseas to meet the needs of a customer. We can provide training, sustainment and upgrades in-country. In others we partner across borders to produce a regional solution. Alternatively we can manufacture items in the customer’s country either with a local partner or in facilities we build ourselves. It is this flexibility that ensures we remain a leading company worldwide as well as a trusted partner in the countries where we operate. It creates long-term jobs and economic development as well as skills in the local workforce that can be applied into other industries over the course of the careers we create together.
Brazilian industry already has some world leaders with which BAE Systems is proud to partner, such as EMGEPRON on munitions and Embraer on the C-390, commercial aviation and EVE urban air mobility programmes. The capabilities of Brazil's people are behind these successes and hold the key to further significant economic development.
Meeting the objectives that Brazil has for the future will require this flexibility of approach. Our commitment to do so in Brazil is absolute. It is an exciting prospect for everyone at BAE Systems. How we grow with Brazil is yet to be determined with our customers and our partners. That our partnership will grow in Brazil is certain.
Protection, partnership, prosperity. It is the ideal combination for the Brazilian people. BAE Systems is proud to continue to help provide that combination and to grow it further in the years ahead.
Head of Communications, Europe & Americas
BAE Systems plc