Company: NOC
Filing Date: 2025-05-28
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-129530
Chunk: 56

Company: NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-05-28
Form: 424B5
Chunk 56
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 series, and to fix the designations, powers, preferences and the relative, participating, optional or other special rights and any qualifications, limitations and restrictions of the shares of each series of preferred stock. The issuance of preferred stock could impede the completion of a merger, tender offer or other takeover attempt. Advance Notice Provisions. A stockholder must notify us in writing, within timeframes specified in the bylaws, of any stockholder nomination of a director and of any other business that the stockholder intends to bring at a meeting of stockholders. Amendments to Bylaws. Our bylaws may be amended by our board of directors or by the affirmative vote of the holders of not less than a majority of the voting power of all outstanding shares of capital stock entitled to vote thereon, voting as a single class, and by the holders of any one or more classes or series of preferred stock entitled to vote thereon as a separate class. Delaware Business Combination Statute. We are subject to the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law. In general, the statute prohibits a Delaware corporation that has either a class of stock listed on a national stock exchange or at least 2,000 stockholders of record from engaging in a business combination with an interested stockholder (generally, the beneficial owner of 15% or more of the corporation’s outstanding voting stock) for three years following the time the stockholder became an interested stockholder, unless, prior to that time: (1) the corporation’s board of directors approved either the business combination or the transaction that resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder, (2) at least two-thirdsof the outstanding shares not owned by that interested stockholder approve the business combination, or (3) upon becoming an interested stockholder, that stockholder owned at least 85% of the outstanding shares, excluding those held by officers, directors and some employee stock plans. A “business combination” includes a merger, asset sale, or other transaction resulting in a financial benefit, other than proportionately as a stockholder, to the interested stockholder. PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION We may sell the securities in one or more of the following ways from time to time:

| • |     | to or through underwriters or dealers; |

| • |     | directly to one or more purchasers; |

| • |     | through agents; or |

| • |     | through a combination of any of these methods of sale. |

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In addition, we may issue the securities