In September 2020, Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) fired an employee for wearing a "Trump 2020" hat prior to a work meeting under the company's rules against "campaigning" for politicians. The employee is said to have worn similar apparel prior to previous meetings for a lengthy part of his career at HII. Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) scored an 80 on the 2023 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. By complying with Human Rights Campaign’s controversial demands, Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) increases the risk of dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders. The company covers transgender-related medical costs for its employees and their children and provides specific sexual orientation and gender identity-based benefits. It also uses sex and gender ideology criteria in employee recruitment, vendor selection, marketing, and philanthropic support. HII forces employees to undergo multiple ideological trainings and uses its reputation, corporate funds, and political influence to support controversial sex and gender ideologies, organizations, and legislation. The company is a signatory of the Business Roundtable's 2019 Statement on the Purpose of Corporation, which promotes stakeholder capitalism. For these reasons, HII receives a High Risk rating.