Photo Release -- Northrop Grumman Selected to Supply U.S. Army With Lightweight Laser...

Photo Release -- Northrop Grumman Selected to Supply U.S. Army With Lightweight
Laser Designator Rangefinders

APOPKA, Fla., Oct. 5, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation
(NYSE:NOC) has been selected by the U.S. Army to provide Lightweight Laser
Designator Rangefinders (LLDR) under a five-year indefinite delivery/indefinite
quantity (ID/IQ) contract with an estimated value of up to $599 million.

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

"This contract award extends our opportunity to provide our military warfighters
with the equipment they need and are asking for," said Gordon Stewart, Northrop
Grumman's Laser Systems vice president and general manager. "We take great pride
in our ability to support the warfighter with our LLDR system, and we look
forward to continuing that commitment by our work under this contract."

Northrop Grumman's LLDR accurately targets enemy positions during the day, at
night and in nearly all battlefield conditions including haze, smoke, fog and
rain. It provides a unique capability to forward observers. The system can
recognize targets, find the range to a target with an eye-safe laser
rangefinder, and calculate target location for smart munitions. The system then
provides this information to other digital battlefield systems. The LLDR can
also be used with laser-guided munitions.

Northrop Grumman's Laser Systems business unit has delivered over eight hundred
LLDR systems since the first Army contract award in 2002. The first delivery
order award under this latest ID/IQ contract is valued at $72.7 million.

Northrop Grumman is one of the world's leading manufacturers of military
Electro-Optical (EO) targeting systems. These include ground-based (man
portable, handheld, and vehicle mounted) EO imaging/ranging systems for target
location, laser designators/markers for precise guidance of smart munitions, and
airborne laser rangefinders and designators fielded onboard many of the world's
most sophisticated manned and unmanned aircraft.

Northrop Grumman Corporation is a 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: Mark Blackington
Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems
(321) 354-3790
mark.blackington@ngc.com