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BAE Systems received a $247,000,000 contract for the Increment 2 MSI program from U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command in 2020.
The AN/ARC-231A radios will be developed and produced at BAE Systems’ facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana with engineering support in Largo, Florida.
BAE Systems received a $35,000,000 CHIPS grant in December 2023 to increase production at a New Hampshire facility producing semiconductors for defense and aerospace applications.
BAE Systems, the former Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., won a $450 contract to develop an ocean-color instrument for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s next geostationary weather constellation.
The cost-plus-award-fee contract dated 2024-05-20 directs BAE Systems to develop two flight instruments to analyze ocean color for the Geostationary Extended Operations (GeoXO) program.
ACX is the second instrument BAE Systems has been contracted to develop for the GeoXO mission.
BAE Systems was also selected to build the GeoXO Sounder (GXS) instrument.
BAE Systems, the former Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., won a $365,000,000 contract on 2024-05-01 to develop an air quality sensor for U.S. geostationary weather satellites.
Work on the MGUE Increment 2 program is conducted at BAE Systems’ facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
BAE Systems planned to acquire Ball Aerospace for $5,500,000,000 in a transaction announced on 2023-08-17.
BAE Systems will lead a consortium including Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), PA Consulting, and L3Harris to design and manufacture a deployable tactical Wide Area Network called Trinity.
BAE Systems entered a definitive agreement to acquire Ball Aerospace for approximately $5,550,000,000.
BAE Systems expects revenue compound annual growth of approximately 10% for the acquired business over the next five years.
BAE Systems intends to acquire Ball Aerospace for $5,500,000,000 with the intention announced on 2023-08-17.
BAE Systems’ Cedar Rapids facility is home to more than 800 military GPS experts and continues to expand to accommodate business growth.
BAE Systems was awarded a $7,000,000 contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop AI tools to automate the tracking of data collected by military satellites.
BAE Systems manufactures its thermal camera cores at the company facility in Lexington, Massachusetts.
BAE Systems is working with Finnish firm ICEYE to include ICEYE’s advanced SAR technology in the Azalea cluster.
BAE Systems acquired In-Space Missions in 2023, making BAE one of a small number of British companies capable of designing, building, launching, and operating satellites.
BAE Systems will launch the Azalea multi-sensor satellite cluster into low Earth orbit in 2024.