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BAE Systems, Inc., the third biggest military supplier in the world after Lockheed Martin and Boeing, announced it would continue with providing technical services instead of focusing narrowly on military hardware.

The company is one of the Pentagon’s biggest suppliers, and after a starting an internal review in April, President & CEO Jerry DeMuro stated that the decision was entirely financial--simply a response to potential buyers, not a moral or figurative push to divest from services deemed problematic. In the wake of revelations documenting a massive and unaccountable National Security Agency cyber-spying apparatus, the industry of cyber-security and intelligence analysis is fraught with peril.

According to a piece in Forbes Magazine, BAE has gone through something of a rebranding in recent months. “The business unit that has been under review since April, called Intelligence & Security, generates over $2 billion in annual sales, although only $1.7 billion of that was being considered for sale; a geospatial intelligence business within the unit was considered too valuable to divest, and will be realigned into the company’s electronics unit on January 1. The latter unit, and Inc.’s combat vehicle, guns and munitions business, are often characterized in the media as suppliers of military hardware — unlike the Intelligence & Security unit. The reality, though, is that all three of the company’s operating units in the U.S. are high-tech enterprises engaged to some degree in supplying technical services.”

BAE is the American arm of the British-based BAE Systems plc, but it operates under security clearance almost never provided to a foreign company, allowing it to act in sensitive US government operations. It is essentially comprised of many American companies bought up by the British firm over the years, BAE is a distinctly American enterprise.

And with its total sales reaching $10.5 billion in 2014, the US government surely doesn’t have a compelling reason to divest from the company.

In a related story appearing in the Telegraph, since the ISIS-claimed Paris attacks last week, BAE Systems shares have made a significant rise--the biggest weekly gain in five years. The news comes as military actions are stepped up in Syria and other ISIS controlled territories, as France is the latest country to join the airstrike campaign.

French airstrikes have been targeting Raqqa in Eastern Syria, a known ISIS stronghold.

BAE Systems will “gain the most” as the international community “raises its resources” to fight terrorism.

Speaking to the Telegraph Joshua Mahony, an analyst at IG, said BAE Systems will “gain the most” as the international community “raises its resources” to fight terrorism.

“With Russia announcing its plan to double the amount of airplanes in Syria yesterday (FRI), this could be just the beginning as austerity goes out the window for the sake of security,” Mahony added.

Investec, the international specialist banking and asset management group, raised BAE System’s rating from “sell” to “buy.” Not only is BAE the third largest supplier to the US military, it is the number one supplier to the UK Ministry of Defense, making Britain’s probable escalations in Syria another potential moneymaker for the firm.

Investec analyst Rami Myerson said “Deteriorating geopolitical conditions limit the downside risk to defense budgets in BAE’s core markets.”