BAE Systems has announced a USD 135 million investment to upgrade facilities in Austin, Texas and Hudson, New Hampshire, with the company stating the work will strengthen the US defence industrial base and accelerate delivery of systems supporting American military readiness, according to the company.
The investment, funded entirely through BAE Systems’ own capital, will be split between two sites that play distinct roles in the firm’s Electronic Systems business. Around $85 million will go to the Hudson campus in New Hampshire, where 65,000 square feet of workspace will be modernised and reconfigured. The site is used for the design, development, and testing of advanced capabilities, and BAE Systems said the renovation is intended to optimise workflow and support future requirements from US and allied customers.
In Austin, a $50 million manufacturing overhaul will expand factory infrastructure to meet what the company described as evolving defence requirements for affordable precision munitions. According to BAE Systems, the upgraded site will support end-to-end operations, accelerate innovation, and enable consistent production output.
“This investment in capacity underscores BAE Systems’ long-term commitment to equipping U.S. warfighters with the capabilities they need, when they need them,” said Dave Harrold, vice president and general manager of Countermeasure & Electromagnetic Attack Solutions at BAE Systems, quoted in the press release. “We’re building for the future, delivering at speed and scale, and enabling the capabilities required to deter aggression.”
BAE Systems said the industrial and manufacturing enhancements will support mission-critical programmes for the US Department of War, the name adopted by the former Department of Defense, as well as aerospace work. The company added that the investment will create new engineering and skilled manufacturing jobs at both locations.
The Hudson site sits within BAE Systems’ Electronic Systems sector, which produces electronic warfare equipment, countermeasures, and electromagnetic attack systems used across US fixed and rotary-wing platforms.
It’s quite astounding how well BAE has done in the US, it’s basically become the fourth major US defence contractor.
Just a pitty they sold all their UK electronic assets to Leonardo to pay for it.
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BAES is an impressive organization. Never fully comprehended the reason(s) why they were not valued as a national asset by HMG/MoD on programmes such as the Ajax procurement. Was a BAES employee guilty of sleeping w/ the wife of an MP or senior civil servant? 🤔😉
BAE got a lot of blame for failing/failed/delayed projects that they worked on in the UK. When you get in bad odour with your primary customer, you better have somewhere to branch out to.
BAE Systems is now predominately owned by US shareholders. Perhaps 40% USA and 25% UK? The company would love to move its primary listing from London to New York – but the UK government would almost certainly use its “golden share” to block this.
I wonder if the US people know that the B in BAE means British. Now long before the name gets changed to align with a US identity?
Why do you think they bill themselves as BAE, now? When they arrived here, they billed themselves as BAe, an obvious reference to British Aerospace. By capitalizing the E, they make the name look like an acronym. I once had someone ask me what BAE stood for. They thought the AE was for Army Engineering or some such nonsense.
I can see the day due to the direction the US is going at the moment politically when BAE systems will not be able to operate in the UK and US market and still be one company based in the UK, due to the nature of the defense industry.
They actually AREN’T one company. The UK and US branches are simply owned by the same people. Those operations are not mixed and not allowed to be mixed due to ITAR. A British BAE person is treated the same here as any other foreigner if he walked into a BAE US facility. You will find this to be the same for any pan-national defense entity. MBDA France and MBDA Britain are two companies sharing an ownership structure and name. A French MBDA person showing up at a British MBDA facility needs pre-vetting and checks just as if he was a rank nobody off the streets.