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4/18/2012 9:27 AM ET

BAE Systems Inc. said former Secretary of Homeland Security and current board member Michael Chertoff was elected as the new Chairman of the BAE Systems, Inc. Board of Directors for a three-year term beginning May 1. He succeeds Anthony Zinni, whose term as Chairman of the BAE Systems, Inc. Board of Directors concludes this month. Zinni will remain as an outside director on the board through April 2014.

BAE Systems, Inc., a U.S. corporation, operates under a Special Security Agreement among the U.S. Government, BAE Systems, Inc. and BAE Systems plc (BA.L).

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