Company: NOC
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001133421-25-000016
Chunk: 82

Company: NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 82
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 13G/A with the SEC reporting that as of December 31, 2023, State Street and certain of its subsidiaries collectively were the beneficial owners of more than 5% of our outstanding common stock. A subsidiary of State Street is the trustee for various Northrop Grumman defined benefit and defined contribution plan trusts. Two other State Street subsidiaries provide investment management services. During 2024, those State Street subsidiaries received approximately $5.6 million for such services, all of which was paid by the plan trusts.

BlackRock, Inc. (BlackRock) filed a Schedule 13G/A with the SEC reporting that as of September 30, 2024, BlackRock and certain of its subsidiaries collectively were the beneficial owners of more than 5% of our outstanding common stock. A subsidiary of BlackRock provides investment management services for certain assets within various Northrop Grumman defined benefit plan trusts. During 2024, the trusts paid that BlackRock subsidiary approximately $230,000 for such services.

#### Indemnification Agreements
Our Bylaws require us generally to indemnify our directors and executive officers to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law. Additionally, as permitted by Delaware law, we have entered into indemnification agreements with each of our directors and elected officers. Under the indemnification agreements, we have agreed to hold harmless and indemnify each indemnitee, generally to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law, against expenses, liabilities and loss incurred in connection with threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative to which the indemnitee is made a party by reason of the fact that the indemnitee is or was a director or officer of the Company or any other entity at our request, provided however, that the indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner reasonably believed to be in the best interests of our Company.

#### 2025 Proxy Statement95

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#### Stock Ownership of Certain Beneficial Holders
The following entities beneficially owned, to the best of our knowledge, more than five percent of the outstanding common stock as of the dates indicated in the footnotes below. As of March 21, 2025, there were 144,138,702 shares of our common stock outstanding.

| Name and Address of Beneficial Owner         |     | Amount and Nature ofBeneficial Ownership ofCommon Stock |     |    |     | Percentof Class |     |