Director/PDMR Shareholding

BAE SYSTEMS PLC
17 March 2008



BAE SYSTEMS plc

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
OR THEIR CONNECTED PERSONS


Notification made in accordance with DTR 3.1.4R(1)(a) of the Disclosure Rules
and Transparency Rules.

The Company was notified on 14 March 2008 by the trustee of the BAE Systems
Share Incentive Plan, Equiniti Share Plan Trustees Limited, that on 14 March
2008 the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ('PDMRs')
acquired ordinary shares of 2.5 pence each in BAE Systems plc under the
Partnership Shares element of the BAE Systems Share Incentive Plan at a price of
489.75 pence per share and were also awarded ordinary shares of 2.5p at nil
consideration under the Matching Shares element of the same share plan.  The
transactions took place on the London Stock Exchange.

The number of shares purchased or acquired by PDMRs is as follows:

Name of PDMR                 Number of BAE Systems plc             Number of BAE Systems plc
                             Ordinary shares purchased -           Ordinary shares acquired -
                             Partnership Shares                    Matching Shares
Philip Bramwell              25                                    12
Alan Garwood                 26                                    12
Alastair Imrie               25                                    12
Ian King                     26                                    12
George Rose                  25                                    12
Nigel Whitehead              13                                    12
Alison Wood                  26                                    12


17 March 2008






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