LOS ANGELES COUNTY - News from April 5, 1988

Alton J. Brann has been named group executive for Litton’s components and industrial products group, succeeding Roland O. Peterson, who has become president of Litton, Beverly Hills. Brann, 46, a corporate senior vice president since 1987, had been group executive of the navigation, guidance and control systems group.

Succeeding Brann as head of that group is John M. Leonis, 54, who had been president of the company’s guidance and control systems division in Woodland Hills, Calif. Leonis was elected a corporate vice president in January. Larry A. Frame, 52, succeeds Leonis. Frame had been vice president-programs management at the division.