Photo Release -- Northrop Grumman Names Tony Spehar Sector Vice President and General...

Photo Release -- Northrop Grumman Names Tony Spehar Sector Vice President and
General Manager, Kinetic Energy Interceptors Program

FAIR LAKES, Va., Jan. 22, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation
(NYSE:NOC) has named Tony Spehar sector vice president and general manager for
its Kinetic Energy Interceptors program.

A photo accompanying this release is available at
http://media.primezone.com/noc/

Spehar reports directly to Jerry Agee, corporate executive for missile defense
and president of Northrop Grumman's Mission Systems sector. In this role, Spehar
is responsible for leading the company's effort to develop and test the Kinetic
Energy Interceptors missile defense program.

"Tony brings an enormous amount of program management experience on large
missile integration projects to the KEI effort," said Agee. "Before joining the
program, Tony spent more than 15 years managing several high-profile efforts
aimed at modernizing the Minuteman III ICBM weapon system, making this highly
complex missile viable through 2030. As the KEI program moves into its final
stages of development, Tony's expertise will be vital to helping the customer
successfully deliver this much-needed capability as part of our nation's layered
missile defense system."

KEI is a flexible missile defense system featuring the U.S. Missile Defense
Agency's newest high-acceleration booster. The system is being developed as a
land-based asset with options that enable land- and sea-mobility. Fully
deployed, KEI will be capable of destroying intermediate and intercontinental
ballistic missiles in their boost, ascent and midcourse phases of flight. A
Northrop Grumman-led team won the eight-year development and test contract in
December 2003.

Since joining Northrop Grumman in 1979, Tony has served in various program
management and engineering roles, from program acquisition, hardware and
software development, and production, to overseeing deployment of several key
military systems.

Most recently, Spehar served as vice president and deputy general manager for
the KEI program, as well as KEI director of business development and director of
systems engineering and integration. Prior to the KEI program, Tony was the
program director for the Minuteman III Propulsion Replacement Program (PRP), a
$1.9 billion effort to modernize the propulsion systems on the land-based
Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Most notably, Tony led
the contract restructure effort in April 2004, following two industrial
accidents at subcontractor facilities and as program manager, led the company
efforts to requalify new suppliers and transition the PRP work seamlessly to new
production facilities.

In addition to the ICBM PRP effort, Tony led several other ICBM modernization
efforts as part of Northrop Grumman's highly successful 15-year contract to
modernize and sustain the nation's force of Minuteman III missiles through 2030.

Spehar earned a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's in nuclear
engineering from the University of Utah. He also completed the Advanced Program
Management Course at the Defense Systems Management College in Fort Belvoir,
Virginia.

Northrop Grumman Corporation is a $31.5 billion global defense and technology
company whose 120,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and
solutions in information and services, electronics, aerospace and shipbuilding
to government and commercial customers worldwide.

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CONTACT: Marynoele Benson
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
(703) 345-6734
Marynoele.benson@ngc.com