Northrop Grumman Becomes Full Member of UK's Niteworks Partnership

LONDON, January 27 - Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has been formally confirmed as a
full partner in Niteworks, the Ministry of Defence (MoD)-UK defence industry
partnership providing MoD with a broad range of decision support, from
in-depth experimentation to rapid consultation and analysis.

"Northrop Grumman very much welcomes the opportunity to be part of this
important MoD-industry collaboration," said Sir Nigel Essenhigh, chairman
Northrop Grumman UK. "We have considerable capabilities to bring to the
Niteworks partnership, and we look forward to sharing our knowledge, skills
and experience to support its continued success in providing an effective
decision support environment for the enhancement of current and future
military capabilities."

"We are delighted to welcome Northrop Grumman into the Niteworks
Partnership, bringing the total number of industry partners to twelve," said
Niteworks' managing director, Bob Barton. "This will allow Niteworks to draw
on an even broader pool of expertise from across industry, helping the MoD to
make even better, faster and more informed decisions to support current and
future operations."

Niteworks was established by the MoD in 2003 to examine the challenges of
implementing effective Network Enabled Capability (NEC). Since then it has
evolved to become a highly flexible decision support capability for the MoD
and examines defence options ranging from current operational issues through
to high level strategic needs. It achieves this through its reach-back to
industry - uniquely linking the problem and solution domains.

Niteworks is an innovative and agile enterprise for military
capability-based acquisition and evidence-based decision support, in which
the MoD and leading providers in the UK defence industry work in partnership
to address and resolve MoD's high-priority issues. It is an integral part of
MoD's capability management process and provides a multi-disciplinary
environment to explore novel and practical solutions to capability
challenges, as well as providing impartial enterprise advice to the MoD.
Through its experimentation activities Niteworks aims to verify and
accelerate the insertion of new solutions and help inform MoD
decision-making.

The Niteworks industry partners are drawn from the major UK defence
providers ensuring that the full breadth of domain knowledge and the best UK
defence capability is available to deliver vital contributions to current
frontline operations, future acquisition decisions and major capability
programmes.

The partnership consists of twelve UK defence industry partners: BAE
Systems, EADS, EDS, Finmeccanica, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin UK,
Logica, MBDA, QinetiQ, Raytheon, Thales and Northrop Grumman together with
the MoD, the Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (dstl) and 50 industry
associate partners.

The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory is an agency of the MoD and
exists to supply the very best, impartial, scientific and technical research
and advice to the MoD and other government departments

Northrop Grumman Corporation is a leading global security company whose
120,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in
aerospace, electronics, information systems, shipbuilding and technical
services to government and commercial customers worldwide.

Ken Beedle (London) of Northrop Grumman Corporation, +44-207-747-1910, +44-7787-174092, Ken.beedle at euro.ngc.com