Company: NOC
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001133421-25-000016
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Company: NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
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 are proud of our long-standing service to our communities and the progress we have driven across the various aspects of sustainability. Corporate responsibility and sustainability help us drive long-term value creation for our shareholders, customers, employees and suppliers, and the communities we serve.

Management establishes and reinforces the Company’s culture, and our Board is actively engaged in providing oversight. The Board is committed to sustaining and enhancing the Company’s strong culture. For example:

• The Company conducts an annual employee experience survey, which gives our employees the opportunity to provide feedback on our Company culture and the environment that enables their success. This survey is managed by a third-party vendor to encourage candor and solicit feedback on many aspects of the employee experience, including ethical climate, career development, enablement, team culture, manager effectiveness, belonging and well-being. The results of this survey are reported to and discussed with the full Board annually.

• The Board meets regularly with employees at all levels to reaffirm the health of our culture. The Board meets with employees during site visits that are a critical part of Board meetings, and also during “Sector Days,” when our directors visit the operations across our four business sectors.

• Members of our Board often share their time by generously participating as speakers in Company leadership programs.

The Board’s committees oversee elements of the Company’s culture associated with their respective area of responsibility. For example:

• The Audit and Risk Committee reviews and discusses the Company’s global compliance programs and policies with our General Counsel and CECO, including the Company’s Standards of Business Conduct and related business conduct policies, and the tone set by leaders throughout the organization, and they meet periodically with our CECO to receive a report on matters that are communicated through the Company's OpenLine reporting system.

• The Compensation and Human Capital Committee reviews with the CHRO the Company’s human capital management, oversees policies and practices with respect to employee experience and engagement and reviews a risk assessment of the Company’s compensation programs.

• The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee provides the Board oversight of the Company’s corporate culture and governance-related risks.

• The Policy Committee reviews and provides oversight of the Company's policies and programs with respect to sustainability and environmental matters, human rights, health and safety, and corporate social responsibility, including support of charitable organizations.

#### 2025 Proxy Statement39

#### Corporate Governance

#### Board Memberships and External Relationships
While the Company recognizes the importance of having directors with significant experience in other businesses and activities, directors are required to ensure that other commitments, including, for example, other board