CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - Litton Marine Systems has won orders to supply fiber optic gyrocompass and radar systems for 12 new patrol boats being built for the Portugal Customs Brigade.

The 12 vessels, under construction at Conafi Shipyard, will be fitted with Litton SR 2100 fiber-optic gyrocompasses and Litton Decca BridgeMaster E 250 X-band radars. The order was placed through SICOM - Sistemas de Comunições, Lda, Litton's sales and service representative in Portugal. SICOM will also provide support for installation, service and training.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Sperry Marine, a unit of Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), has just completed fitting an integrated bridge system on a new shuttle tanker in Spain for Norwegian shipowner Navion ASA.

"This job required a very rapid turnaround time to meet the shipyard's schedule, which we achieved in record time of six weeks from order to commissioning/seatrials," said J. Nolasco DaCunha, vice president and general manager of commercial marine markets.

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has been awarded type approval from the Italian classification society Registro Italiano Navale (RINA) for its Sperry Marine VoyageMaster II Simplified Voyage Data Recorder (S-VDR).

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - The Ministry of Defense has awarded a contract to Litton Marine Systems to install an ISIS 2500 alarm monitoring and condition assessment system on the auxiliary supply ship RFA Ft. Rosalie.

The new order follows on the successful sea trials of a similar system on the sister ship, RFA Ft. Austin, earlier this year.