BAE Systems Information & Electronic Systems Integration Inc.

BAE Systems Information & Electronic Systems Integration Inc., a subsidiary of BAE Systems PLC headquartered in Austin, Texas, manufactures avionics, electronic warfare countermeasure systems, aircraft components, and specialized defense electronics as a prime contractor (95% of recent awards) competing full-and-open across the Department of Defense and federal logistics agencies. The company operates without SBA set-aside designations, competing on capabilities and established relationships as an original equipment manufacturer across multiple military platforms.

BAE Systems' customer concentration is heavily skewed toward defense logistics and naval supply. The top five funding agencies account for 71% of awards by count but 84% by potential value, revealing a stark split between high-volume, low-dollar component orders and a single transformational program. Defense Logistics Agency Aviation leads by award count (297 awards, $395.7 million combined potential value), followed by Naval Supply Systems Command (284 awards, $35.4 million), both ordering routine aircraft parts, navigational lights, electronic control units, and countermeasure test sets. However, the Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors (25 awards, $2.1 billion combined potential value) dominates dollar exposure — this represents a major program concentration risk and opportunity. The Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal (13 awards, $146.9 million) and Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center (23 awards, $48.7 million) round out the primary customer set. The skew between award count and dollars signals that BAE Systems is both a high-volume component supplier to DLA and a critical subsystem integrator on large Army modernization efforts.

Capability framing emerges from the named work: computer flight director systems for naval aircraft, electronic warfare countermeasure dispensers (AN/ALE-47 platform), infrared beacon rings, electric lighting controls, taillight assemblies, mission computers, and circuit card assemblies. Recent prime awards include a $5.2 million definitive contract with ACC Warren for taillight assemblies (awarded August 29, 2025), a $46.7 million OTA with Naval Air Warfare Center for the AN/ALE-47 Common Carriage Prototype Project running through August 31, 2026, and multiple DLA purchase orders for navigational lights and control components in the $100–$600 thousand range. A $1.4 million single-award IDC with Naval Supply Systems Command (awarded July 30, 2025) covers mission computers and the ALE-47 platform through July 2027. The $5.6 million TACOM OTA for MCSKS (awarded September 25, 2024) represents an additional prototype or production vehicle. Commodity-level work dominates the DLA footprint: gasketing materials, rubber strips, and connector covers ordered through routine purchase orders. Cost-plus and firm-fixed-price vehicles split across the portfolio, with firm fixed-price predominant in supply-chain work.

Vehicle position reflects a mix of agency IDCs, GSA Schedules, and BOAs. BAE Systems places task orders under the Federal Supply Schedule GS07F5778P (61 task orders, $24.1 million), the indefinite-delivery contract W15P7T09DM403 (34 task orders, $175.7 million — a significant parent vehicle likely supporting Army modernization), and multiple Navy BOAs including N0010411GA301 (36 task orders, $2.8 million) and N0016410GWT55 (28 task orders, $1 million). The top five vehicles account for modest penetration, suggesting work is distributed across multiple contracting mechanisms rather than concentrated on a single GWAC or government-wide vehicle.

Activity has accelerated in the past two years: eleven awards in 2022 rising to thirty-six in 2024, with thirty-one awards in 2025, indicating growing customer demand or program expansion. Seventeen awards (combined potential value $60.8 million) complete within the next twenty-four months, exposing the company to recompete risk on those vehicles and delivery orders — particularly on the DLA supply-chain work and any Army platform awards reaching contract end.

BAE Systems subcontracts primarily to major airframe and ground-vehicle primes, rarely holding the prime position itself on large integrator contracts. Named sub relationships include Bell Textron (multiple Future Vertical Lift and AH-1Z Foreign Military Sales sub-awards in 2024–2025), General Dynamics Land Systems (M1A2 Abrams SEPv3 production and upgrade sub-awards, SGT STOUT, multiple 2024–2025 placements), The Boeing Company (CH-47F, F-15EX, UH-1N Replacement sub-awards), Lockheed Martin (C-130J Long Term Sustainment, foreign government sustainment), Northrop Grumman (electronic countermeasure and Stand-In Attack Weapon sub-awards), Sikorsky Aircraft (Combat Rescue Helicopter and Black Hawk sub-awards), L3Harris (Armed Overwatch production aircraft), and Alliant Techsystems (Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile and printed circuit assembly manufacturing). The sub footprint shows BAE Systems functioning as a component supplier and subsystem integrator embedded in major defense platforms rather than a prime systems integrator.

NAICS concentration reveals the core capability mix: Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (138 awards), Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (123 awards), and Bare Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing (87 awards) dominate, with secondary depth in Other Electronic Component Manufacturing (65 awards). PSC concentration tracks similarly: Electronic Countermeasures, Counter-Countermeasures and Quick Reaction Capability Equipment (109 awards) leads, followed by Electric Vehicular Lights and Fixtures (101 awards) — directly echoing the DLA navigational-light and electric-control-unit orders — and Information Technology Input/Output and Storage Devices (68 awards). The category profile confirms BAE Systems as a mid-tier component and subsystem manufacturer for aircraft, ground vehicles, and electronic warfare platforms, with deep penetration in supply-chain ordering but strategic positioning on large development and production programs through the Army PEO and Navy.