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Supporting our military family in and beyond their service

ENabled is an employee-led group in our UK business that offers support to employees with disabilities, whether visible or non-visible.

We are currently supporting over 100 PhDs at our strategic university partners. Every year, each university puts forward one outstanding student for our annual PhD award.

Embrace is our employee-driven group supporting cultural and ethnic diversity.

At BAE Systems we are committed to supporting employees and our UK business is an accredited ‘Menopause Friendly Employer’. We partner with experts Henpicked to raise awareness of menopause symptoms and provide resources and training to help create a working environment that supports everyone to be the very best they can be.

We are delighted to be participating in and sponsoring the first face to face WorldSkills UK competitions since the pandemic. Taking place from 14-18 November, the competition brings together UK trainees from different vocational career paths, ranging from machining and tiling to catering and floristry, to compete in a number of challenges.

The manufacturing philosophy of the Factory of the Future, as well as its understanding and implementation, has been accelerated by the Tempest Future Combat Air System (FCAS) programme.

The mission: Map comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko by remote sensing, and examine its environment in situ and its evolution in the inner Solar System.

At the first day of Farnborough International Air Show, the new portal was officially opened, offering small to medium enterprises greater opportunities to promote their capabilities and access the defence market.

A representative military fast jet fuselage has been designed and built in our first-of-its kind industry 4.0 Factory in Lancashire.

While BAE Systems has its own exciting sustainability technologies and research, we’ll only achieve our ambitious net zero goals by working with others. Climate change is an issue we all face together, so collaboration is the best approach.

To mark International Women in Engineering Day, we speak to STEM organisation InnovateHer about its efforts to inspire female and non-binary students in the North West, following a £150,000 investment by BAE Systems.

Up to 6,000 young people across the UK will benefit from inspirational STEM-inspired youth programmes as part of a new £50,000 partnership between BAE Systems and the Jon Egging Trust.

Military Adviser and former First Sea Lord Sir Philip Jones shares his experiences of being a young Acting Sub Lieutenant on board HMS Fearless during the Falklands conflict.

For us, being open and providing support for the mental health and wellbeing of our employees is a vital element in ensuring that we have an inclusive work culture and a safe, supportive and compassionate community.