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Tue, 9 Feb 2010 19:17:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss newsdesk@globenewswire.com (NewsDesk) webmaster@globenewswire.com (Webmaster) http://www.globenewswire.com/images/pzlogo_144x33.gif http://www.globenewswire.com/ 144 33 http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=183928 LINTHICUM, Md., Feb. 9, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has announced the appointment of David Reith as vice president of finance and controller for the company's Electronic Systems sector, effective immediately. http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=183928 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 19:17 GMT http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=183925 REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Feb. 9, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has appointed Linnie Haynesworth vice president and deputy program director for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=183925 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:57 GMT http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=183601 LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Several Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) sites have been honored by the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery as Waste Reduction Awards Program (WRAP) winners. http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=183601 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 18:00 GMT http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=183421 REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Feb. 3, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has been selected by ITT Corporation (NYSE:ITT) to provide flight cryocoolers for the sensor payloads for two international weather satellites. The geostationary satellites will provide round-the-clock weather forecasts and severe weather alerts. Cryocoolers are used to reduce thermal noise in space-based sensors. http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=183421 Wed, 3 Feb 2010 14:00 GMT http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=183397 HERNDON, Va., Feb. 3, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has appointed Jack Stumpf vice president, and business operations director and chief financial officer of National Security Technologies LLC (NSTec), located at the Nevada Test site. Northrop Grumman is the managing partner of this joint venture, which supports the National Nuclear Security Administration. http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=183397 Wed, 3 Feb 2010 13:00 GMT http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=183412 BALTIMORE, Feb. 3, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- What was once a condemned house at 1606 N. Gilmore St. is today the newly-renovated home of Leticia Smith and her family, thanks to a community partnership between Sandtown Habitat for Humanity and Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC). http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=183412 Wed, 3 Feb 2010 13:00 GMT http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=183285 REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Feb. 2, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The five-layer, tennis court-sized sunshield for the Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) -built James Webb Space Telescope has passed its critical design review, certifying that its design is complete and meets mission requirements. By achieving thermal, deployment and stray-light targets, the sunshield is now ready for manufacturing. http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=183285 Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:00 GMT http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=183240 LINTHICUM, Md., Feb. 1, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Applications are now being accepted for the eighth annual Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) Engineering Scholars competition, which will provide a total of $240,000 in college scholarships across Maryland this year to promising high-school seniors interested in studying engineering. http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=183240 Mon, 1 Feb 2010 19:14 GMT http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=183103 LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) are flying aboard two state-of-the-art European Space Agency (ESA) space telescopes. The Herschel and Planck spacecraft are studying the formation of stars and galaxies, as well as relic radiation from the Big Bang. http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=183103 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:11 GMT http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=183096 NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Jan. 29, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) returned the nation's newest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), to the U.S. Navy following the completion of modernization and maintenance work accomplished during the ship's post shakedown availability and selected restricted availability (PSA/SRA). http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=183096 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:34 GMT http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=183084 REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Jan. 29, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Maritime Laser Demonstration (MLD) system being developed by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has passed two milestone reviews by the Office of Naval Research, which point to the real potential of the MLD weapon system design. http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=183084 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:00 GMT http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=182860 HAWTHORNE, Calif., Jan. 27, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and the Da Vinci Schools have opened the Northrop Grumman Innovation Lab on campus, heralding the continuation of a long-term partnership between the two charter high schools and the company. http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=182860 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:00 GMT http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=182816 HERNDON, Va., Jan. 27, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- U.S. Air Forces in Europe has awarded the Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc (KBR) 50/50 joint venture Vinnell, Brown & Root LLC (VBR) a contract to provide base operations support services for locations in Turkey and Spain. http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=182816 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:00 GMT http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=182641 LINTHICUM, Md., Jan. 25, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC), in conjunction with the U.S. Air Force, has successfully completed a series of demonstration flights of its Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) installed in an F-16 fighter aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The demonstration was in support of a U.S. Air Force F-16 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) feasibility study. http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=182641 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:36 GMT http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=182528 HERNDON, Va., Jan. 25, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) Defense Systems division has received the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development (CMMI-DEV(r)) Level 5, the highest rating possible. http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=182528 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:00 GMT http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=182421 HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Jan. 21, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) today said it will enter the competition as a prime contractor for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Development and Sustainment contract. http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=182421 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:08 GMT http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=182292 MELBOURNE, Fla., Jan. 20, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This week 29 Brevard County high school students kicked off a semester-long NextGen Engineers seminar sponsored by Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) Aerospace Systems sector. The NextGen Engineers program is aimed at exciting high school students about careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=182292 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:57 GMT http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=182227 HERNDON, Va., Jan. 20, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) a contract to continue the modernization and training of the Saudi Arabia National Guard (SANG). The contract has a potential value of $550 million. http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=182227 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:00 GMT http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=182226 PASCAGOULA, Miss., Jan. 19, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) Shipbuilding sector has awarded $82,000 in grants to Gulf Coast school districts in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to use for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) projects. Each district selected one middle school to receive the grant enabling them to implement and improve necessary STEM resources. http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=182226 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:25 GMT http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=182209 REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Jan. 19, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) team led by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) kicked off the new year with the delivery of a critical sensor, the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?ref=rss&d=182209 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:00 GMT