Northrop Grumman's (NYSE: NOC) Sperry Marine business unit has announced the relocation of its Hamburg office to a new and expanded facility.

The 1,450-square-meter facility houses sales, marketing, product engineering, application engineering, service, finance and control, information technology, and production control functions. A comprehensive training unit has also been installed to provide classroom and simulator training on a complete Sperry Marine Vision FT integrated bridge system.

The Sperry Marine building is located at Woltmanstrasse 19, in the Hamburg City Center District, with convenient access to all forms of public transport, hotels and shopping.

In a related announcement, Sperry Marine also named Uwe Oldekop as managing director of the Hamburg office, succeeding Dieter Hallbauer, who retired at the end of July 2004 after 40 years with the company.

Oldekop joined C. Plath in Hamburg in 1981 as a navigation systems service engineer. In 1985, he left the company to study technical computer science at Hamburg's College of Technology. During this period, he worked for four months with the Shanghai Institute of Technology and the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai. In 1990, he was awarded a degree in engineering and returned to C. Plath as a design and project engineer. In 1998, following a merger with Sperry Marine, he joined the NAVIPILOT 4000 development team in Charlottesville, Va. In 2000, he succeeded Hallbauer as chief engineer at the Sperry Marine Hamburg office.

Sperry Marine, with worldwide headquarters in Charlottesville, Va., and major engineering and support offices in New Malden, U.K., and Hamburg, Germany, is part of Northrop Grumman's Electronic Systems sector. Sperry Marine provides smart navigation and ship control solutions for the international marine industry with customer service and support through offices in 16 countries, sales representatives in 47 countries, and authorized service depots in more than 250 locations worldwide.

Headquartered in Baltimore, Md., Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems is a world leader in the design, development and manufacture of defense and commercial electronic systems including airborne radar, navigation systems, electronic countermeasures, precision weapons, airspace management systems, communications systems, space sensors, marine and naval systems, government systems and logistics services.

For commercial sales inquiries, contact Sperry Marine by phone at +1 434 974 2656 or by e-mail at sales_commercial@sperry-marine.com. For military sales inquiries, call +1 434 974 2134 or e-mail sales_military@sperry-marine.com. Visit our web site at www.sperry-marine.com.