page_title: Pacific Architects and Engineers
section_title: U.S. Department of State
hierarchical_section_title: Pacific Architects and Engineers / Operations and clients / U.S. Department of State
caption_attribution_description: English: Team effort: USAID is supporting NGO Welthungerhilfe to build the Zwedru ETU; Partners in Health to provide health care; and PAE to manage the facility. / Carol Han, USAID
context_page_description: Pacific Architects and Engineers is an American defense and government services contractor. Founded in 1955 by Edward Shay, it is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. Since 2016 it has been owned by Platinum Equity.
  PAE is a major supplier of services to the U.S. Department of State. Other significant clients have included the United Nations, the UK Ministry of Defence, the New Zealand Defence Force, and the Central Intelligence Agency.
context_section_description: In 2007, Thomas P. M. Barnett called PAE the "KBR of the State Department".
  According to PAE, its earliest work for the State Department began in the 1950s and included design of the Kandahar International Airport and Kabul University, and construction of the U.S. Embassy in Laos.
  In 1986, PAE was contracted to provide support staff to the United States Embassy in Moscow and Consulate General in Leningrad.
  Since 2000, PAE has been responsible for recruiting and hiring elections observers to fill the United States quota to OSCE elections monitoring missions. Under a separate contract with the U.S. State Department, PAE provided almost "all of the logistical support for the deployment of AMIS" beginning in 2004. In the early 21st century it also supported, via the State Department, ECOWAS missions in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  In 2015, when the U.S. Agency for International Development supported a program by the German NGO Welthungerhilfe to build four ebola treatment centers in Liberia, PAE was awarded contracts for the management of the sites.
  In 2017, according to the company, it received a $423 million contract from the State Department to "provide administrative, technical, maintenance, training, safety and logistics/procurement support for the Colombian National Police's" aviation unit.
caption: The PAE logo shown on a sign at a U.S.-funded, and PAE-operated, ebola treatment center in Liberia in 2015.
exif: {}