Company: NOC
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-126289
Chunk: 27

Company: NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form: 424B5
Chunk 27
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 backup withholding and FATCA below, interest paid on a note by us or any paying agent to a non-U.S.holder will be exempt from U.S. income and withholding tax under the “portfolio interest S-20

exemption,” provided that (i) the non-U.S. holder does not, actually or constructively, own 10% or more of the combined voting power of all
classes of our stock entitled to vote; (ii) the non-U.S. holder is not a controlled foreign corporation related to us, directly or indirectly, through stock ownership; (iii) the non-U.S. holder is not a bank that acquired the note in consideration for an extension of credit made pursuant to a loan agreement entered into in the ordinary course of its trade or business; and (iv) either
(a) the non-U.S. holder provides to the applicable withholding agent an IRS Form W-8BEN or
W-8BEN-E, as applicable (or a suitable substitute form), signed under penalties of perjury, that includes its name and address and that certifies its non-U.S. status in compliance with applicable law and regulations or (b) a securities clearing organization, bank or other financial institution that holds customers’ securities in the ordinary course of
its trade or business and holds the note on behalf of the non-U.S. holder provides a statement to the applicable withholding agent, signed under penalties of perjury, in which it certifies that an IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable (or a suitable substitute form), has been received by it from the
non-U.S. holder or a qualifying intermediary and furnishes a copy of that form to the applicable withholding agent.

If a non-U.S. holder cannot satisfy the requirements of the portfolio interest exemption described above, payments of
interest made to that holder generally will be subject to U.S. withholding tax at the rate of 30%, unless that holder provides the applicable withholding agent with a properly executed IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable (or a suitable substitute form), establishing an exemption from or reduction of the withholding tax under the benefits of an applicable tax treaty.

Sale, exchange, redemption, retirement or other disposition of notes

Subject to the discussion of backup withholding below under “Non-U.S. holders—Information reporting and
backup withholding,” a non-U.S. holder generally will not be subject to U.S. federal income tax or withholding tax on any