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BAE Systems’ Electronic Systems Sees Growth In International And Commercial Markets

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, August 22nd, 2013

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HUDSON, N.H. –International and commercial markets are expected to be the growth areas--to as much as 50 percent--as U.S. defense budgets tighten, officials at BAE Systems’ Electronic Systems sectors said. The Army is Electronic Systems’ biggest customer, even as its budget contracts, said Paul Markwardt, vice president and deputy general manager of the Electronic Systems sector during a media visit here Aug. 12. Six percent of the sector’s business is made up of work on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter,…

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