Bae Systems 401(k) and pension plans

Bae Systems, Inc., Falls Church, VA. EIN 22-3537950. Annual reports 2009–2025. Also filed as Ball Corporation; Eclipse Electronic Systems Inc; Bae Systems Inc.

Bae Systems, Inc. has 3 active retirement plans on file. The largest is the Bae Systems Employees' Savings and Investment Plan, with 58,830 participants and $12.0 billion in assets in 2025. Empower is its recordkeeper.

Active plans: 3
Participants: 84,504
Plan assets: $15.6 billion
401(k) recordkeeper: Empower
Plans on file: 6
Industry: Manufacturing

All 6 plans

Active plans first

Bae Systems Employees' Savings and Investment Plan

401(k)Active

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2025 plan year.

Plan number: 003Employer EIN 22-3537950
Participants (2025): 58,830
Net assets (2025): $12.0 billion
Recordkeeper: EmpowerEarlier: Peggy Edge CPA (2024), Alight (2016–2023), Peggy Edge, CPA (2015), Alight (2009–2014)
Plan administrator: Bae Systems Administrative Committee
2941 Fairview Park Drive
Falls Church, VA 22042
(571) 461-6088As filed for 2025
In effect since: January 1, 1987

Plans merged into this one: Eclipse Electronic Systems Inc 401(k) Plan (2015); Signal Innovations Group Inc. 401(k) Profit Sharing & Trust (2014); Atlantic Marine Group Employee Savings and Profit Sharing Plan and Trust (2010).

Year by year, 2009 to 2025

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2025	58,830	$12.0 billion	Empower
2024	58,807	$10.6 billion	Peggy Edge CPA
2023	53,737	$9.4 billion	Alight
2022	49,546	$8.2 billion	Alight
2021	48,577	$10.0 billion	Alight
2020	48,568	$9.1 billion	Alight
2019	47,704	$7.9 billion	Alight
2018	47,165	$6.6 billion	Alight
2017	45,144	$7.0 billion	Alight
2016	44,755	$6.1 billion	Alight
2015	45,123	$5.7 billion	Peggy Edge, CPA
2014	45,737	$5.8 billion	Alight
2013	47,241	$5.6 billion	Alight
2012	50,225	$4.8 billion	Alight
2011	52,230	$4.4 billion	Alight
2010	54,263	$4.3 billion	Alight
2009	57,303	$3.7 billion	Alight

Bae Systems Employees' Retirement Plan

Pension (defined benefit), frozenActive

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2024 plan year.

Plan number: 050Employer EIN 22-3537950
Participants (2024): 20,783
Net assets (2024): $3.2 billion
Administered by: WTW2009–2024
Plan administrator: Bae Systems Administrative Committee
2941 Fairview Park Drive
Falls Church, VA 22042
(571) 461-6088As filed for 2024
In effect since: November 29, 1999

Plans merged into this one: Bae Systems Employees' Retirement Plan 2006 (2012); Pension Agreement Between U.D.L.P. Ground Systems Division- York and United Steel Workers of America Local Union No. 7687 (2023); Bae Systems Land & Armaments Employees Pension Plan (2023); Stewart & Stevenson Pension Plan (2012); Pension Plan for Employees of Bae Systems Controls Inc. in Participating Bargaining Units (2022); Bae Systems Employees' Retirement Plan for Commercial Electronics-Irving (2021); Norshipco Pension Plan for Represented Hourly Employees (2021).

Year by year, 2009 to 2024

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2024	20,783	$3.2 billion	WTW
2023	23,647	$3.4 billion	WTW
2022	30,388	$4.1 billion	WTW
2021	29,887	$5.5 billion	WTW
2020	27,198	$5.4 billion	WTW
2019	41,866	$5.6 billion	WTW
2018	42,611	$4.8 billion	WTW
2017	43,307	$5.4 billion	WTW
2016	43,963	$4.8 billion	WTW
2015	44,762	$4.6 billion	WTW
2014	50,185	$5.0 billion	WTW
2013	50,986	$4.6 billion	WTW
2012	43,799	$4.3 billion	WTW
2011	44,567	$3.4 billion	WTW
2010	45,569	$3.3 billion	WTW
2009	46,298	$3.0 billion	WTW

Bae Space & Mission Systems Pension Plan

Pension (defined benefit)Active

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2024 plan year.

Plan number: 053Employer EIN 22-3537950
Participants (2024): 4,891
Net assets (2024): $417 million
Administered by: WTW2023–2024
Plan administrator: Bae Systems, Inc.
2941 Fairview Park Drive
Falls Church, VA 22042
(888) 900-4223As filed for 2024
In effect since: January 1, 1986

Earlier sponsor: Ball Corporation (2009–2023).

Earlier plan names: Ball Corporation Pension Plan As IT Applies to Certain Salaried Employees of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp..

Year by year, 2009 to 2024

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2024	4,891	$417 million	WTW
2023	5,222	$335 million	WTW
2022	5,601	$308 million	not listed
2021	6,361	$483 million	not listed
2020	6,728	$610 million	not listed
2019	6,076	$514 million	not listed
2018	5,314	$424 million	not listed
2017	4,600	$473 million	not listed
2016	4,760	$466 million	not listed
2015	4,537	$350 million	not listed
2014	4,639	$377 million	not listed
2013	5,126	$404 million	not listed
2012	5,072	$335 million	not listed
2011	4,970	$294 million	not listed
2010	4,923	$270 million	not listed
2009	4,950	$246 million	not listed

Eclipse Electronic Systems Inc 401(k) Plan

401(k)MergedUnion (multiemployer)

Merged. In 2015 its assets moved to the Bae Systems Employees' Savings and Investments Plan, sponsored by Bae Systems, Inc. (EIN 22-3537950, plan 003). Accounts moved with them, so that plan is the one to contact.

Plan number: 051Employer EIN 22-3537950
Participants (2014): 95
Net assets (2014): $3.4 million
Plan administrator: Bae Systems Inc
1300 Wilson BLVD Suite 700
Arlington, VA 22209
(703) 312-6100As filed for 2015
In effect since: January 1, 2002

Earlier sponsor: Eclipse Electronic Systems Inc (2009–2013).

Earlier plan names: Eclipse Electronic Systems Inc Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan; Eclipse Electronic Systems, Inc. 401(k) Plan.

Year by year, 2009 to 2015

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2015	0	$0	not listed
2014	95	$3.4 million	not listed
2013	103	$3.4 million	not listed
2012	127	$3.6 million	not listed
2011	146	$3.8 million	not listed
2010	129	$3.7 million	not listed
2009	75	$2.3 million	not listed

Signal Innovations Group Inc. 401(k) Profit Sharing & Trust

401(k)Merged

Merged. In 2014 its assets moved to the Bae Systems Employees' Saving and Investment Plan, sponsored by Bae Systems, Inc. (EIN 22-3537950, plan 003). Accounts moved with them, so that plan is the one to contact.

Plan number: 052Employer EIN 22-3537950
Plan administrator: Bae Systems Administrative Committee
1101 Wilson BLVD., Suite 2000
Arlington, VA 22209
(703) 312-6100As filed for 2014
In effect since: January 1, 2004

Bae Systems Employees' Retirement Plan 2006

Pension (defined benefit)Merged

Merged. In 2012 its assets moved to the Bae Systems Employees' Retirement Plan, sponsored by Bae Systems, Inc. (EIN 22-3537950, plan 050). Accounts moved with them, so that plan is the one to contact.

Plan number: 009Employer EIN 22-3537950
Participants (2011): 17,059
Net assets (2011): $218 million
Administered by: WTW2009–2012
Plan administrator: Bae Systems Administrative Committee
1101 Wilson BLVD, Suite 2000
Arlington, VA 22209
(703) 312-6100As filed for 2012
In effect since: April 1, 2006

Year by year, 2009 to 2012

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2012	0	$0	WTW
2011	17,059	$218 million	WTW
2010	17,760	$153 million	WTW
2009	4,749	$41.6 million	WTW

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Empower (empower.com), which runs the Bae Systems Employees' Savings and Investment Plan. With your Social Security number and the plan name, it can tell you whether you still have a balance and, if not, where it went.
Or call the plan administrator listed on the plan below ((571) 461-6088). That number was filed for 2025; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
If your plan was merged, your account moved with it. Follow the link on the plan to the plan it went into, and contact that one.
Still stuck? The Department of Labor's benefits advisers help for free: askebsa.dol.gov or 1-866-444-3272. Never pay anyone to find your own money.

What these numbers are

They come from the Form 5500 annual reports each plan files with the Department of Labor, as the plan filed them. A plan year is usually a calendar year.
Participants counts everyone in the plan at year end: current employees, former employees who still have a balance or a pension coming, and retirees or beneficiaries being paid.
The recordkeeper is the service provider whose Schedule C entry says it keeps the plan's records. Small plans do not file Schedule C, so some plans show none.
We cannot see anyone's account. Only the plan or its recordkeeper can tell you your balance.

Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 datasets and PBGC trusteed plans. How we read them.