[4] In July 2008, prospects of a bidding war for Detica emerged after BAE Systems made an informal offer.

[5] On 28 July 2008 the board of Detica and BAE Systems announced that the latter had made a formal cash offer of £9.40 for all issued and to-be-issued share capital.

[10] In October 2014, Kevin Taylor was appointed as managing director, following Martin Sutherland's departure to De La Rue.

[11] In December 2014, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence acquired Perimeter Internetworking Corp., trading as SilverSky, a commercial cyber services provider.

[13] In June 2017, an investigation by the BBC and the Danish newspaper Dagbladet Information showed that BAE Systems Applied Intelligence had been selling a mass surveillance technology called Evident to the governments of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Morocco and Algeria.

"[citation needed] During the Danish Business Authority's processing of the company's application to be allowed to export to Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Qatar, it asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to assess whether there was a risk of the product being used for human rights violations, as required by EU law, to which the full response was, each time, "the Ministry of Foreign Affairs finds no reason to object to the attached application".

[18] The company has four specialist areas of expertise: cyber security, data and digital solutions, space systems and battlespace integration.