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How rad-hard technologies make space exploration a reality

It’s important to create a working environment where everyone feels supported, respected and heard.

Our engineers are working to develop Striker II, our most advanced pilot’s helmet for the RAF’s Typhoon frontline fleet. Here Nigel Kidd, Director for Helmet Mounted Displays, talks about how he turned a childhood fascination for electronics into an absorbing career and about the challenges of bringing cutting edge products like Striker II to life.

BAE Systems is delighted to once again have participants in the final of the WorldSkills UK competition. Taking place from 15 – 17 November, the competition brings together participants from a range of disciplines across the UK, to compete in a number of challenges.

It was a night of glitz, glamour and celebration for Munitions IDT Lead, Lizzy Nash, and Business Development Manager, Marcus Gartside, who had the privilege of representing BAE Systems at this year’s Army Sports Awards.

An apprenticeship can open the door to a successful career, but it doesn’t happen without a lot of determination and hard work.

The Royal British Legions’ (RBL) Poppy Appeal raises vital funds – across the period of Remembrance – each year to support the Armed Forces Community, all year round. We hear from one of our own veterans, Paul, who served in the Army for 23 years. Now an Engineering Operations Manager in our Digital Intelligence business, Paul talks about his experience with the charity when they stepped-in to help after he left the Forces.

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence seeks to secure critical NHS systems and organisations today and into the future through cutting edge risk methodologies and techniques

We’ve proudly supported The Open University’s Disabled Veterans’ Scholarships Fund (DVSF) since its inception nearly seven years ago, helping hundreds of veterans study for higher-education. The first of its kind in the UK, this pioneering scheme provides free education and tailored support to the ex-military community who have been injured or disabled in, or during, military service.

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.

BAE Systems and midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy recently completed another year of a unique internship program

The Royal Academy of Engineering has today elected BAE Systems Air’s Dr Paul Needham (PhD, Hon DUniv, CEng, FIET) as a new fellow, in recognition of his outstanding career in Engineering and contributions to solving engineering problems in aerospace design and manufacture.

DSEI (Defence & Security Equipment International) made a return in 2023, and it took place at London's ExCeL exhibition centre, situated in the Royal Victoria Dock in London Docklands, North Hall, H3-110 from Tuesday 12th to Friday 15th September.

Rapid reprogramming delivers advanced electromagnetic sensing and jamming capabilities

At BAE Systems Ordnance Systems Inc., we're Government-Owned, Contractor-Operated (GOCO) experts. We understand the meaning of partnership and are forever mission ready. With the knowledge from generations of dedicated Americans right here in the Appalachian Valley, we're shaping the future of defending democracy. Our team delivers cutting-edge research & development capabilities to the U.S. Armed Forces.

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.

Together with our supply chain partners, we're transforming for the future.