By Terrence Nowlin

Army veteran and PAE CEO John Heller welcomed guests at a ceremony marking the company's commitment to employing more men and women from the military community. On August 28, the Virginia Values Veterans Program awarded its V3 certification to PAE at its Falls Church, Virginia, headquarters. The certification recognizes PAE's dedication to veteran employees through best practices in recruiting, hiring and retaining veterans and their spouses. 

By Kerry McGinley

What looked like an end-of-summer picnic at Kentucky Consular Center was actually the celebration of a year-round effort to safeguard the wellbeing of the roughly 400 PAE employees who work there. They fired up the grill, took a break from the grind and welcomed Williamsburg, Kentucky, Mayor Roddy Harrison, whose wife worked at KCC. 

By Kerry McGinley

When Ji Elliott arrived at the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan in October 2016, he had a big job ahead of him. He was the new manager of a task order at Bagram Air Base that was up against some tough circumstances in a war zone with staffing challenges. 

He told his Air Force customer he had a plan.

“I convinced them to … give me a couple of months to turn it around,” Elliott said.

Chico Moline, president of PAE‘s national security solutions business, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the impact of emerging technologies on the company, the challenges of talent recruitment, security clearances and PAE’s future in new markets.

By Terrence Nowlin

Rosann Peterson is known for her savvy in transitioning teams, even at a distance.

“I’m the business operations manager for the NMS [National Maintenance Strategy] program,” Peterson said. “What we do is vehicle maintenance for the Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police in Afghanistan, as well as training of the local nationals.”

By Kerry McGinley

Tens of millions of dollars and human lives are on the line on Peter Canipe’s watch. He’s the Division Manager in charge of Support Services for the Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center, a U.S. Navy major range test base located in the Bahamas. AUTEC is a deep-water test evaluation facility that’s 72 miles long, 24 miles wide and 6,000 feet deep. Even with that much ocean, 45 people under his supervision and 36 years on the job, Canipe has a perfect safety record.