Company: NOC
Filing Date: 2025-05-28
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-129530
Chunk: 33

Company: NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-05-28
Form: 424B5
Chunk 33
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 may hold a portion of our 7.875% and 7.750% senior notes due 2026. As a result, such underwriters or such affiliates of the underwriters may receive a portion of the proceeds from
this offering to the extent such proceeds are used to redeem or otherwise repurchase such notes. In addition, BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC, one of the underwriters participating in the offering, is an affiliate of the trustee.

In the ordinary course of their various business activities, the underwriters and their respective affiliates, officers, directors and employees may purchase,
sell or hold a broad array of investments and actively traded securities, derivatives, loans, commodities, currencies, credit default swaps and other financial instruments for their own account and for the accounts of their customers, and such
investment and trading activities may involve or relate to our assets, securities and/or instruments (directly, as collateral securing other obligations or otherwise) and/or persons and entities with relationships with us. If any of the
underwriters or their affiliates have a lending relationship with us, certain of those underwriters or their affiliates routinely hedge, certain other of those underwriters or their affiliates have hedged and are likely in the future to hedge or
otherwise reduce their exposure, and certain other of those underwriters or their affiliates may hedge, their credit exposure to us consistent with their customary risk management policies. Typically, these underwriters and their affiliates would
hedge or otherwise reduce such exposure by entering into transactions which consist of either the purchase of credit default swaps or the creation of short positions in our securities, including potentially the notes offered

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hereby. Any such credit default swaps or short positions could adversely affect future trading prices of the notes offered hereby. The underwriters and their respective affiliates may also
communicate independent investment recommendations, market color or trading ideas and/or publish or express independent research views in respect of such assets, securities or instruments and may at any time hold, or recommend to clients that they
should acquire, long and/or short positions in such assets, securities and instruments.

We expect to deliver the notes against payment for the notes on
or about the date specified in the last paragraph of the cover page of this prospectus supplement, which will be the second business day following the date of the pricing of the notes (such settlement cycle being referred to as “T+2”).
Under Rule 15c6-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, trades in the secondary market generally are required to