SAIC Earns Perfect Score on 2019 Corporate Equality Index
Company Earns 100 percent on Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 17th Annual Scorecard on LGBTQ Workplace Equality
RESTON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) announced today that it received a perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2019 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), the nation’s premier benchmarking tool on corporate policies and practices impacting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer employees. With this score, SAIC has earned the distinction of “Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality.”
“We are proud to have been selected by the Human Rights Campaign to receive this prestigious honor. SAIC is fully committed to workplace equality and we thrive on being inclusive. By creating an atmosphere where we understand our similarities and differences, our employees can be their authentic selves, which ultimately contributes to our high-performing company,” said SAIC CEO-elect Nazzic Keene. “Our CEI score is a reflection of our values and commitment to an inclusive environment where all employees are respected and appreciated.”
The 2019 CEI evaluates LGBTQ-related policies and practices including non-discrimination workplace protections, domestic partner benefits, transgender-inclusive health care benefits, competency programs, and public engagement with the LGBTQ community. SAIC joins 571 major businesses spanning nearly every industry and geography to achieve CEI’s highest distinction.
“SAIC has made an active effort to provide a competitive and inclusive benefits package for all of our employees. Ultimately, these efforts resulted in satisfying all of the CEI’s criteria leading to our 100 percent ranking and the designation as a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality,” SAIC Chief Human Resources Officer Karen Wheeler.
For more information on the 2019 Corporate Equality Index, or to download a free copy of the report, visit www.hrc.org/cei. To learn more about SAIC’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, visit https://www.saic.com/careers/life-at-saic.
About SAIC
SAIC is a premier technology integrator solving our nation’s most complex modernization and readiness challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. With an intimate understanding of our customers’ challenges and deep expertise in existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to rapidly deliver innovative, effective, and efficient solutions.
We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.
Certain statements in this announcement constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve risks and uncertainties and a number of factors could cause our actual results, performance, achievements, or industry results to be very different from the results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Some of these factors include, but are not limited to, the risk factors set forth in SAIC’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and other such filings that SAIC makes with the SEC from time to time, which may be viewed or obtained through the Investor Relations section of our web site at www.saic.com. Due to such uncertainties and risks, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.
Contacts
SAIC Media Contact:
Lauren Presti
703-676-8982
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