Mobile 'Container Calculator' App Quickly Calculates
                    Transportation Requirements

ANDOVER, Mass., Sept. 26, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A mobile app
developed by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) that quickly
calculates transportation requirements for large quantities of
operational rations is available for free through the Apple App Store.

The Container Calculator, or CCALC-I, helps defense logisticians,
supply chain planners and others determine the number of pallets,
containers and transports needed to move a user-defined amount of
provisions.

CCALC-I can be downloaded at
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ccalc-i/id530517996?mt=8 and is
compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

The mobile app employs a small database that quickly calculates the
total weight and determines the number of pallets, air pallets, and
20-and 40-foot containers, called transportation equivalent units
(TEUs), needed to move the user-defined requirement.

The app's home screen allows the user to select from 19 different
ration types -- including Meals, Ready to Eat (MREs), Humanitarian
Daily Rations (HDRs) or bottled water -- and enter the quantity of
cases required.

The app then calculates the weight and TEUs, and provides the different
options in quantities of pallets, containers, airframes, helicopters
and ground vehicles needed to move the required rations. The output can
be emailed in a text file.

"With the Container Calculator app, anyone anywhere can rapidly
estimate transportation needs to move an ad hoc requirement -- say,
50,000 cases of MREs to support a surge or rations and bottled water
for a humanitarian or disaster relief effort," said David Hammond,
technology manager of the Northrop Grumman Information Systems team in
Andover, Mass., that developed the app. "The basic logistical problem
is not procuring MREs, it's moving them -- and quickly estimating what
you need to move them."

Hammond said the app's mobility frees users from ties to a desktop or
laptop computer and any need for Department of Defense network
connectivity. The task it addresses enables DOD logisticians and
planners to be more efficient, which benefits the DOD supply chain.

Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing
innovative systems, products and solutions in aerospace, electronics,
information systems, and technical services to government and
commercial customers worldwide. Please visit www.northropgrumman.com
for more information.


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