Company: NOC
Filing Date: 2025-06-10
Form Type: 11-K
Source: 0001133421-25-000043
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Company: NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-06-10
Form: 11-K
Chunk 14
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4, the NG Stock Fund earned dividends of $64 million from its investment in Northrop Grumman Corporation common stock.

State Street affiliates managed $0.9 million and $1.6 million of Plan assets held in a short-term investment fund as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The Plan paid $0.5 million to the Trustee in fees during the year ended December 31, 2024.

The DC Master Trust utilized various investment managers to manage its net assets. These net assets may be invested into funds also managed by the investment managers. Therefore, these transactions qualify as party-in-interest transactions. The Plan had transactions with the Trustee’s short-term investment fund, a liquidity pooled fund in which participation commences and terminates on a daily basis. In Plan management’s opinion, fees paid

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during the year for services rendered by parties-in-interest were based upon customary and reasonable rates for such services. The Plan also issues loans to participants, which are secured by the vested balances in the participants' accounts.

#### 8. PLAN TERMINATION
Although it has not expressed any intention to do so, the Company has the right under the Plan provisions to discontinue its contributions at any time and to terminate the Plan subject to ERISA provisions. In the event of a Plan termination, participants will become fully vested in their accounts.

#### 9. FEDERAL INCOME TAX STATUS
The Plan obtained its latest determination letter dated August 31, 2021, in which the IRS determined that the Plan’s terms at the time of the determination letter application were in compliance with applicable sections of the Code and, therefore, is exempt from taxation. In December 2016, the IRS began publishing a Required Amendments List for individually designed plans which specifies changes in qualification requirements. The list is published annually and requires plans to be amended for each item on the list, as applicable, to retain its tax-exempt status. Management believes the Plan and related trust are currently designed, have been amended, and are being operated in compliance with the applicable requirements of the Code. Therefore, no provision for income taxes has been included in the Plan’s financial statements.

10. RECONCILIATION OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS TO FORM 5500

A reconciliation of net assets available for benefits per the financial statements to Form 5500 is as follows:

|                                                                | $ in thousands | December 31 |       2024 |     |   |