LONDON, July 11 /PRNewswire/ --

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) will display its wide range of
industry leading capabilities and programmes at the Farnborough Airshow,
including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), airborne early warning and control
systems, fire control radars and infrared countermeasures.

Additional information about Northrop Grumman's Farnborough activities is
available on the Web at http://www.northropgrumman.com/farnborough2008/.

The airshow will take place at Farnborough Airfield 14-20 July. Around
1,500 exhibiting companies from 35 countries are expected to attend the show
together with 270,000 visitors. This year Farnborough Airshow celebrates the
60th anniversary of the airshow at Farnborough and the 100th anniversary of
the first successful sustained, powered flight in the UK made from
Farnborough in 1908.

Northrop Grumman's exhibit pavilion and open air static display area will
include UAVs. The MQ-8B Fire Scout vertical take-off and landing unmanned
aerial vehicle and the RQ-4 Global Hawk high altitude, long endurance
unmanned system, including the marine version selected by the U.S. Navy for
the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System programme, will
be featured. Full sized models of Global Hawk, Fire Scout and the Unmanned
Combat Air System demonstrator will be on display.

Also featured in the exhibit pavilion will be the KC-45A aerial
refuelling tanker. Earlier this year, the U.S. Air Force selected a Northrop
Grumman-led team to provide the new tanker, which will be based on the
highly-successful Airbus A330 commercial airframe.

Displays including models of the AN/APG-68(V) 9 mechanically scanned fire
control radar, and the AN/APG-81 active electronically scanned array (AESA)
radar and Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) will also be present. Northrop
Grumman will also be revealing the newest addition to its collection of AESA
fire control radars.

Also highlighted will be Northrop Grumman's 737 airborne early warning
and control, multi-role electronically scanned array (MESA) radar
capabilities.

Other programmes available for viewing will be the directional infrared
countermeasures (DIRCM); the LITENING advanced airborne targeting and
navigation pod; and the Longbow Apache helicopter and Longbow Hellfire
missile system.

In addition, Northrop Grumman will demonstrate using TouchTable
technology how a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) can be
created by interconnecting a diverse array of scientific data from
instruments and systems for monitoring and forecasting changes in the global
environment. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) will
also be featured. Northrop Grumman is under contract to NASA Ames Research
Center to build LCROSS, which will search for water and water-bearing
compounds at the lunar South Pole.

Northrop Grumman's Italian subsidiary, Northrop Grumman Italia, will be
present at Farnborough, displaying a full range of its state-of-the-art fibre
optic navigation systems, including the LISA-200, the Navex family of
attitude heading reference systems and LN 251 / LN 270 high accuracy inertial
navigation systems. These are in service on aircraft platforms in the U.S.,
Europe and Asia and are fitted to the Eurofighter Typhoon, the Tornado and
BAE Systems Hawk.

Northrop Grumman in the UK operates from primary locations at Fareham,
Chester, Coventry, New Malden, Peterborough, RAF Waddington and Solihull,
providing avionics, communications, electronic warfare systems, marine
navigation systems, robotics, C4I solutions and mission planning, aircraft
whole life support, IT systems and software development.

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.

Web site: http://www.northropgrumman.com
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