CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, July 3 /PRNewswire/ --

Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE: NOC) Sperry Marine business unit
has recently unveiled a new integrated desktop marine radar designed to meet
the latest International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) performance
standards.

The new Sperry Marine VisionMaster FT(TM) 250 is designed to comply with
the IEC 62388 CAT 2 technical requirements and meets the International
Maritime Organization (IMO) carriage requirements for vessels of 5,000 to
10,000 gross tonnage. Sperry Marine plans to offer the product in radar-only
and chart-radar configurations. An enhanced version will incorporate all of
the CAT 1 functionality for automatic tracking and plotting on the 250
millimeter display. The products will also meet all requirements for
high-speed craft.

The new radar incorporates all of the advanced functions of Sperry
Marine's VisionMaster FT family of integrated marine navigation products, and
features the industry's most advanced automatic clutter-suppression
technology, ensuring detection and tracking of small radar targets in the
presence of sea or rain clutter.

"The VisionMaster FT 250 desktop radar gives smaller vessels the
automatic tracking and plotting technology -- normally only available in a
CAT 1 radar -- in a compact, cost-effective, easy-to-install package," said 
John Robinson, Sperry Marine's strategic business unit director for radar.

The new radar uses a state-of-the-art high-resolution LCD screen and
contains all of the below-deck components, including a processor and
interfaces, in a single compact console. The unit has been designed for easy
"plug-and-play" retrofit upgrade for any Sperry Marine BridgeMaster-series
radar, using the existing BridgeMaster antenna, transceiver, cabling and
interfaces.

The new unit is currently undergoing final type approval tests and is
expected to be commercially available in the third quarter of 2008.

Sperry Marine, headquartered in Charlottesville, Va., and with major
engineering and support offices in New Malden, United Kingdom and Hamburg,
Germany, provides smart navigation and ship control solutions for the
international marine industry with customer service and support through
offices in 16 countries, sales representatives in 47 countries and authorized
service depots in more than 250 locations worldwide.

Northrop Grumman Corporation is a global defence 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.

For commercial sales inquiries, contact Northrop Grumman Sperry Marine by
phone, +1-434-974-2656 or by e-mail, sales_commercial@sperry.ngc.com. For
military sales inquiries, call +1-434-974-2134 or e-mail
sales_military@sperry.ngc.com. Visit our Web site at
http://www.sperrymarine.northropgrumman.com.

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