LOS ANGELES COUNTY - News from Aug. 11, 1986

Roland O. Peterson, senior vice president of Beverly Hills-based Litton Industries, has been named group executive for the company’s components and industrial products group. He replaces Arnold R. Kaufman, who is retiring.

Alton J. Brann, a Litton vice president and president of the company’s guidance and control systems division in Woodland Hills, succeeds Peterson as group executive of the navigation, guidance and control systems group.