Northrop Grumman Exhibits at Eurosatory 2010

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) is participating in the international land and air-land defenceand security exhibition, Eurosatory, where it will highlight its key capabilities in the intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) domain, command and control, and in tactical data link technology. Eurosatory takes place from 14-18 June at the VIPARIS Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre, Paris. The Northrop Grumman exhibit area is at stand location J 631. "Northrop Grumman has a strong presence across Europe and Eurosatory gives us the opportunity to showcase the considerable capabilities that we have to offer," said John Brooks, president of Northrop Grumman International Inc. "We are committed to our customer base in Europe and look forward to building on the transatlantic industry ooperation and partnerships that we have developed through the Euro Hawk and NATO AGS programmes and to bringing new Northrop Grumman technologies to this important market." Exhibits will demonstrate Northrop Grumman's breadth and depth of capability in ISR and land systems, and will highlight the role the company plays in ensuring armed forces around the world have the capabilities they need to carry out their roles as safely and effectively as possible. The Northrop Grumman exhibit stand will feature the company's industry-leading capability in unmanned aerial vehicles including the Global Hawk-based solution for the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) requirement and the Fire Scout, a ulti-role vertical unmanned aircraft system (VUAS) . Northrop Grumman is the prime contractor for the NATO AGS system, currently in development at the company's Melbourne, Fla. facility, in which the Block 40 version of the RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft is a key component. Demonstrating its commitment to trans-Atlantic cooperation, Northrop Grumman leads an industry team representing 15 participating nations to develop and produce the Alliance-owned and operated ground surveillance capability. The AGS system provides real-time data, intelligence and target identification to NATO users within and beyond line of sight.