Leidos

Virginia
Commercial and Professional Services

Risk Level:

Rating - Caution
Medium Risk

Summary:

Leidos has not publicly terminated business relationships due to differences in viewpoint. However, the company does not provide viewpoint protections for employees and pledges to vet vendors based on LGBTQ policies. Leidos also supports LGBTQ Pride Month events regularly and is committed to unconscious bias training for racial equity. Its charitable giving policy does not discriminate against faith-based organizations, though Leidos funds out-of-state abortion expenses and sex-change surgeries and therapies. For these reasons, Leidos receives a "Medium Risk" rating.

Criteria
Risk Level
Rationale
Corporate Weaponization
Criteria

Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level
Rationale

Leidos has not publicly terminated business relationships due to religious beliefs or political views. The company received a score of 95 on the Corporate Equality Index from the Human Rights Campaign. Among other requirements, this means Leidos has pledged to vet vendors based on LGBTQ policies (1).

Criteria

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level
Rationale

Leidos will donate to religious organizations if donations support “programs which are broadly promoted and available to anyone, regardless of religious orientation” (1). Leidos does not discriminate against religious schools in its higher education gift-matching program (2).

Criteria

Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

Risk Level
Rationale

Leidos does not protect its employees from viewpoint discrimination (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy
Criteria

Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

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Rationale

Leidos CEO Roger Krone signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge (1)(2). Leidos supports various Pride Month events across the country and encourages its employees to participate in said events (3)(4).

Criteria

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level
Rationale

There are no publicly known examples of Leidos donating to ideological groups (1). Leidos covers up to $10,000 for its employees to travel out of state to get an abortion (2). The company will also pay for sex-change surgery and similar treatments through its medical benefits program.

Criteria

Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level
Rationale

Leidos makes bipartisan PAC donations without ideological intent (1)(2).

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March 23, 2023

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