Brad Sears
Nan Hunter
Christy Mallory
April 2012
Report Update: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity NonDiscrimination Policies of the Top 50 Contractors, FY 2011
This Appendix updates the report Economic Motives for Adopting LGBT-Related Workplace
Policies released by the Williams Institute in October of 2011. It provides an updated list of
federal contractors who have non-discrimination policies that include sexual orientation and
gender identity. The list of top contractors is based on federal procurement data reported for
fiscal year 2011.1
As of April 2012, 86% of the top 50 federal contractors prohibit discrimination based on sexual
orientation, and 55% prohibit discrimination based on gender identity. While the numbers
increased for both categories of anti-discrimination policies, the bigger increase was for the
number of top 50 contractors prohibiting gender identity discrimination, for which there was a
29% increase from the previous year. Combined, these contractors represent 46.9% of all
contracting dollars awarded by the federal government, over $249 billion in spending.
All of the top six federal contractors—Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrop
Grumman, Raytheon, and United Technologies —prohibit discrimination based on both sexual
orientation and gender identity. These six companies alone receive 23% of all federal
contracting dollars. Of the top 25 federal contractors, 92% prohibit discrimination based on
sexual orientation, and 58% prohibit discrimination based on gender identity. These 25
companies receive 38% of federal contracting dollars.
The percentage of top 50 federal contractors with these policies has increased steadily in recent
years. The October 2011 Williams Institute report, based on fiscal year 2010 data, found that
81% of the top 50 federal contractors prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation, and
44% prohibited discrimination based on gender identity. The increase is due in part to a change
in contractors that ranked in the top 50 from year to year, and in part to more contractors
adopting these policies.
Notably, four contractors that ranked among the top 50 in both 2010 and 2011—BAE,
McKesson, KBR, and Humana— have added gender identity to their non-discrimination policies
since the beginning of the 2010 fiscal year. One company that ranks on both lists, KBR, has since
added sexual orientation. DynCorp became the most recent of these top contractors to protect
1
The list of top 50 federal contractors for fiscal year 2011, determined by dollar amount of their
combined federal contracts, is available at Federal Procurement Data System – Next Generation, Top 100
Contractors Report, https://www.fpds.gov/fpdsng_cms/index.php/reports. Due to partnerships involving
two or more companies contracting under one name, the top 50 federal contractors on this list consist of
49 unique entities. The percentages reported here are based on the number of unique companies
represented (49).”
LGBT people when it added both sexual orientation and gender identity to its non-discrimination
policy in February 2012.
With the recent policy changes at BAE, McKesson, KBR, Humana, and DynCorp, over half of the
contractors that ranked among the top 50 in 2010 now prohibit discrimination based on gender
identity, and 84% of those contractors now prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Table 1: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Non-Discrimination Policies of
the Top 50 Contractors, FY 2011
Rank
Company
% of Total
Contracting Dollars
Awarded
Dollars
Awarded
(millions)
Sexual
Orientation
Gender
Identity
1
Lockheed Martin Corp.
8.0%
42,447
X
X
2
The Boeing Co.
4.1%
21,599
X
X
3
General Dynamics Corp.
3.7%
19,443
X
X
4
5
6
7
2.8%
2.8%
1.5%
1.4%
15,020
14,771
7,908
7,379
X
X
X
X
X
X
1.4%
7,358
X
9
Northrop Grumman Corp.
Raytheon Co.
United Technologies Corp.
SAIC Inc.
L-3 Communications Holdings
Inc.
BAE Systems PLC
1.3%
6,876
X
X
10
11
Oshkosh Corp.
McKesson Corp.
0.9%
0.9%
4,942
4,796
X
X
X
X
12
Computer Sciences Corp.
0.8%
4,509
X
X
13
14
Bechtel Group Inc.
URS Corp.
Huntington Ingalls Industries
Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding
Corp.
ITT Corp.
The Veritas Capital Fund II LP
Humana Inc.
Health Net Inc.
Triwest Healthcare Alliance
Corp.
Hewlett-Packard Co.
General Electric Co.
Fluor Corp.
Bell Boeing Joint Project Officea
0.8%
0.8%
4,499
4,409
X
X
0.8%
4,040
X
0.7%
3,935
X
X
0.7%
0.7%
0.6%
0.6%
3,863
3,843
3,445
3,145
X
X
X
X
X
X
0.6%
3,093
0.6%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%
2,942
2,847
2,774
2,666
X
X
X
X
8
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
29
Bell Helicopter (Textron Inc.)
The Boeing Co.
CACI International Inc.
Textron Inc.
Los Alamos National Security
LLCa
Bechtel Group Inc.
University of California
The Babcock & Wilcox Co.
URS Corp.
KBR Inc.
30
26
27
28
0.5%
0.5%
2,615
2,515
0.5%
2,505
X
X
0.4%
2,277
X
X
Honeywell International Inc.
0.4%
2,193
X
31
Battelle Memorial Institute Inc.
0.4%
2,149
X
32
Harris Corp.
0.4%
2,125
X
X
33
Alliant Techsystems Inc.
General Atomic Technologies
Corp.
The Babcock & Wilcox Co.
Supreme Group Holding SARL
ManTech International Corp.
Coins 'n Things Inc.
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.
IBM Corp.
California Institute of
Technology
FedEx Corp.
Lawrence Livermore National
Security LLC
BP PLC
Dell Inc.
AmerisourceBergen Corp.
Navistar International Corp.
Evergreen International
Airlines
Computershare Ltd.
Merck & Co. Inc.
0.4%
2,122
X
X
0.4%
2,068
0.4%
0.4%
0.4%
0.4%
0.3%
0.3%
2,057
2,033
1,953
1,894
1,843
1,745
X
X
X
X
X
X
0.3%
1,646
X
X
0.3%
1,592
X
X
0.3%
1,575
X
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
1,473
1,423
1,416
1,407
X
X
X
0.3%
1,400
X
0.3%
0.3%
46.9%b
1,365
1,331
249,182b
X
X
42
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
Total
a
X
X
X
X
X
X
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Contractor is a partnership that consists of two or more companies. The companies in the partnership are listed
directly under the partnership name. A policy is only listed for the individual company within the partnership if the
company does not appear elsewhere on this list.
b
Numbers may not sum to total due to rounding.