INTRANET POSTING

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Exhibit (a)(8)

March 29, 2002

Information for TRW Stock Savings Plan participants

The following provides guidance to participants of TRW’s SSP who recently have received materials from Northrop Grumman:

• You may have received a mailing from Northrop Grumman near the deadline to inform Trustees on whether or not you wish to tender your shares into Northrop Grumman’s Offer to Exchange. The lateness of this mailing was unfortunate, but it was Northrop Grumman’s mailing—not TRW’s.

• If you did not or could not provide your instructions before the deadline, the Trustees will make a decision for you with respect to the Offer to Exchange in their own fiduciary judgment.

• Very shortly you will receive proxy materials from TRW and from Northrop Grumman regarding upcoming shareholder meetings, which will include proposals concerning Northrop Grumman’s Offer to Exchange. In addition, North American TRW employees will receive a voting guide booklet outlining your Board’s recommendations on the matters to be presented at these meetings.

The directors and certain executive officers of TRW may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from shareholders of TRW in connection with TRW’s special meeting of shareholders under the Ohio Control Share Acquisition Statute. Information concerning such participants is contained in TRW’s definitive proxy statement relating to TRW’s 2002 Annual Meeting filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 4, 2002 on Schedule 14A.

This communication relates to Northrop Grumman’s exchange offer commenced March 4, 2002. Shareholders of TRW are advised to read TRW’s Solicitation/Recommendation Statement on Schedule 14D-9, filed March 13, 2002, as it may be amended from time to time, and TRW’s PROXY STATEMENT FOR THE SPECIAL MEETING IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOLICITATION OF PROXIES FROM TRW SHAREHOLDERS WHEN IT BECOMES AVAILABLE, BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Shareholders of TRW and other interested parties may obtain, free of charge, copies of the Schedule 14D-9, TRW’s proxy statement and other documents filed by TRW with the SEC at the SEC’s internet website at www.sec.gov. Each of these documents may also be obtained, free of charge, by calling investor relations at TRW at 216-291-7506.

	•		You may have received a mailing from Northrop Grumman near the deadline to inform Trustees on whether or not you wish to tender your shares into Northrop Grumman’s Offer to Exchange. The lateness of this mailing was unfortunate, but it was Northrop Grumman’s mailing—not TRW’s.

	•		If you did not or could not provide your instructions before the deadline, the Trustees will make a decision for you with respect to the Offer to Exchange in their own fiduciary judgment.

	•		Very shortly you will receive proxy materials from TRW and from Northrop Grumman regarding upcoming shareholder meetings, which will include proposals concerning Northrop Grumman’s Offer to Exchange. In addition, North American TRW employees will receive a voting guide booklet outlining your Board’s recommendations on the matters to be presented at these meetings.