Directorate Change

BAE SYSTEMS PLC
26 February 2007

BAE Systems plc



Directorate change



Professor Sue Birley will retire from the BAE Systems Board immediately after
the Company's Annual General Meeting to be held on 9 May 2007.  Professor Birley
will be retiring having served as a non-executive director for more than six
years.



Chairman Dick Olver said, 'Sue Birley has been an extremely diligent and
effective member of the BAE Systems Board during a period in which the Company
has been strategically and financially transformed.  Her contribution, in
particular as Chairman of the Remuneration Committee, has been greatly valued.'










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