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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. Working with an independent research company, we’ve created the paper below to explore some of the most interesting sustainability technology being developed by others in industry, start-ups and academia.

Following a visit to our site in Warton, Lancashire, the Financial Times featured an article about the latest progress on the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP). Read about the work we’re doing with our industry partners in the UK, Italy and Japan to deliver a next generation combat aircraft by 2035.

As a former RAF pilot with eight years’ experience in the Test and Evaluation squadron, our Typhoon Operational Requirements Manager, Andrew 'Blyty' Mallery-Blythe, understands how vital fast decision-making is when it comes to being an effective fighter pilot.

Tucked away where river meets Irish Sea, the small town of Preesall in a quiet corner of coastal Lancashire seems an unlikely place to find an integral part of the UK aerospace supply chain.

There’s a buzz around Samlesbury site, and it isn’t just the team hard at work. Samlesbury site is now home to its very own colony of bees.

"My first love will always be hands-on engineering; taking a challenge that is seemingly impossible, designing and building the very best solution possible, and then watching it become a reality. That’s an awesome feeling!"

Back in 2019, whilst studying Aerospace Engineering at the University of Liverpool, Becky landed a summer internship with BAE Systems, a business she’d be excited to return to again in September 2020, after she secured a role on the Company’s graduate scheme.

Simulating temperature controlled environments through machine learning is just one advantage of our digital manufacturing approach in the Factory of the Future.

The Eurofighter Typhoon is the backbone of combat air power across Europe and its global allies and as Mike Frank, Head of Engineering for Typhoon Product Strategy, explains it is just getting started.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had a game-changing impact on the teams that carry our in-service support and servicing on the Royal Air Force’s Typhoon fleet.

One of Samlesbury's former runways has been recycled and put to use on Lancashire's roads, thanks to a unique recycling scheme being led by Lancashire County Council.

It's often said that the power behind the Air Sector is it's people. But what you may not know is just how many of our talented colleagues are champions outside of work as well as inside.