Company: NOC
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001133421-25-000016
Chunk: 73

Company: NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 73
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 the 2024 Plan, 2011 Plan and 1993 Directors Plan, and additional performance shares of 275,673, which reflect the number of shares deliverable under payment of outstanding restricted performance stock rights, assuming maximum performance criteria have been achieved.

(2) There were no options outstanding as of December 31, 2024.

(3) Of the aggregate number of shares that remained available for future issuance, 5,792,728 were available under the 2024 Plan as of December 31, 2024. No new awards may be granted under the 2011 Plan or the 1993 Directors Plan.

(4) After giving effect to our February 2025 awards, the number of shares of common stock remaining available for future issuance would be 5,426,827 (a ssuming maximum payout of such awards).

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Proposal 3: Ratification of Appointment of Independent Auditor

The Audit and Risk Committee believes that the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP (Deloitte) is in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders, and proposes and recommends that the shareholders ratify the Audit and Risk Committee’s appointment of Deloitte as our independent auditor for 2025.

Deloitte served as our independent auditor for 2024, and Deloitte or its predecessors have served as the independent auditor for the Company (including certain of its predecessor companies) since 1975. The Audit and Risk Committee is responsible for the appointment, compensation, retention, oversight, evaluation and termination, if necessary, of our independent auditor. In determining whether to retain Deloitte or engage another independent registered public accounting firm as the Company’s independent auditor, at least annually the Audit and Risk Committee, with management and our internal auditors, reviews and evaluates Deloitte’s performance and independence. As part of its review, the Audit and Risk Committee may consider, among other things, the following:

• the quality and efficiency of Deloitte’s current and historical services provided to the Company;

• Deloitte’s capability, expertise and efficiency in handling the breadth and complexity of the Company’s global businesses and operations;

• the quality and candor of Deloitte’s communications with the Audit and Risk Committee;

• Deloitte’s independence from the Company;

• the appropriateness of Deloitte’s fees; and

• Deloitte’s tenure as our independent auditor (including its knowledge of the Company and its operations, accounting policies and