# BAE Systems: company

Canonical ID: `448455d3-ce0c-4f65-8aac-848ffdf128a8`

## Key facts

- **Scale:** FY2024 revenue ~GBP 26.3B; ~107,400 employees; order backlog ~GBP 75B
- **Autonomy relevance:** Autonomous/uncrewed maritime systems, submarines, naval combat & command systems; EW, sensors, autonomy
- **Scope note:** Registry entity scoped to BAE's autonomy/uncrewed-systems lines, not the whole conglomerate (maritime entity-scoping discipline)

- **Slug:** bae-systems
- **Status:** LSE: BA.
- **Founded:** 1999
- **HQ:** Farnborough, United Kingdom

## Models

- [BAE Systems ARCIMS USV](/models/bae-arcims-usv.md) (maritime) (id: `b7bc8929-b5ba-4dcf-832b-fe0c9e4b17a1`)
- [BAE Systems Herne (XLUUV)](/models/bae-herne-xluuv.md) (maritime) (id: `c6774e16-69bd-48a1-9576-3853b68de172`)

## Current leadership (1)

- [Charles Woodburn](/people/charles-woodburn.md) Group Chief Executive Officer (secondary-verified)

## Supplies to

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## Sources (2)

1. https://www.baesystems.com/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems

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