For decades, BAE Systems has delivered technology that defines modern defence, from the world's first early-warning radar network to major components for the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes. Today we build digitally enabled defence equipment, uncrewed systems across every domain and AI that supports national security forces.
Our breadth makes us natural integrators, combining the digital and the physical to multiply what people can achieve on the front line. Through Launchpad, our technology incubator, we accelerate early-stage, potentially transformative research and dual-use innovation, creating tomorrow's technology today and putting it to work where it matters most.
Collaborative uncrewed and autonomous vehicles
In order to fight and win future conflicts, our customers need to project force. Given the threat from adversaries’ uncrewed systems, we need our own machines to take on the most dangerous of front-line roles and help avoid unnecessary risk to service personnel.
Networked Counter-Drone
We offer a range of vehicles and defensive systems that can identify and defeat swarms of drones. These are able to fuse sensor data from multiple platforms to understand the threat across a wider area, help ‘triage’ individual threats and plan a response.
Synthetic environments
Given the complexity and rate of change in defence today, training in a realistic environment has become more difficult to achieve than ever before, requiring land, sea, air and even space forces to operate together.
With products ranging from digitally-enabled defence equipment, including uncrewed vehicles across all domains, through to AI systems helping the police identify vulnerable children, our breadth of capability means we are natural integrators – combining digital and physical to multiply what humans can achieve. Designed to further accelerate innovation, our technology incubator, Launchpad, focuses on both non-defence uses of our existing technology as well as the very early-stage, potentially-transformative defence research happening today.
We offer truly disruptive capability
For decades, BAE Systems has built the technologies that give defence forces a decisive edge. We connect platforms across a single digital network, so a drone can find a target and an artillery system can respond in moments. That combination delivers far greater operational effect than any capability working alone, as frontline teams in Ukraine confirm.
Our software-enabled systems, AI-enabled autonomy and electronic warfare are trusted across every domain, from the ocean depths to space. We don't just promise capability. We deliver it at scale, and we keep innovating for what comes next.
