After Closing Military GPS Deal, BAE Looks To Leverage Production Know-How From New Unit

摘要

The addition last month of an entrenched military GPS receiver product business by BAE Systems will provide the company with more than just leading products that helps build out its portfolio in precision strike, particularly in the "kill chain" of missile technology, it brings with it high volume production operations that the company expects to learn from and leverage, a BAE executive said last week. About two-thirds of the 700-employee military GPS business, which BAE is now calling Navigation and Sensor Systems, are high-technology engineers and the rest are "highly disciplined...highly skilled production operations people that do things a little differently than we do so it's really interesting to learn from them," John Watkins, vice president and general manager of Precision Strike at BAE Systems, told Defense Daily in an Aug. 6 telephone interview.