Company: NOC
Filing Date: 2025-05-28
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-129530
Chunk: 48

Company: NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-05-28
Form: 424B5
Chunk 48
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 Ownership of beneficial interests in a global note will be limited to persons that have accounts with the depositary, whom we refer to as participants, or persons that may hold interests through
participants. Ownership of beneficial interests in a global note will be shown on, and the transfer of that ownership will be effected only through, records maintained by the depositary or its nominee (with respect to interests of participants) and
the records of participants (with respect to interests of beneficial owners other than participants). The laws of some states require that certain purchasers of securities must take physical delivery of debt securities in definitive, certificated
form. These requirements may impair our ability to sell, and the ability of a purchaser to transfer, beneficial interests in a global note.

So long as the depositary or its nominee is the registered owner of a global note, the depositary or its nominee will be considered the sole
owner or “Holder” of the debt represented by the global note for all purposes under the indenture. Except as described below, owners of beneficial interests in a global note will not be entitled to have any of the debt represented by the
global note registered in their individual names, will not receive or be entitled to receive certificates representing debt securities in definitive form, and will not be considered the owners or “Holders” of the debt securities under the
indenture. Accordingly, investors who hold an interest in global debt securities in accounts at banks or brokers will not generally be recognized by us as the legal holders of the debt securities although the depositary or its nominee may choose to
grant proxies or otherwise allow owners of beneficial interests in the debt securities to take action which the depositary as “Holder” is entitled to take.

Payments of principal and interest, if any, on a global note registered in the name of the depositary or its nominee will be made to the
depositary or its nominee, as the registered owner of the global note. Neither we nor the trustee, any paying agent or the security registrar for the debt securities will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to
or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of the global note or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to those beneficial ownership interests.

We expect that the depositary or its nominee, immediately upon receipt of any payment of principal or interest in respect of a global note,
will credit the accounts of the applicable participants with payments in amounts proportionate to their respective beneficial ownership interests in the principal amount of the global note, as shown on