Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) for "building and facility construction and maintenance services". According to PAE, it was the "first facilities provider to support Land, Sea and Air operations simultaneously for the NZDF". Specific projects undertaken by PAE for the New Zealand Defence Force have included refurbishment of the RNZAF Survival Training Centre at RNZAF Base Auckland and renovation of classrooms at the New Zealand Defence College. United Nations In 2006, the UN awarded PAE a $250 million no-bid contract for the construction of camps for use by UN peacekeepers in the Sudan. PAE has also provided contract police to UN missions in Haiti and Liberia. U.S. Customs and Border Protection In 2012, PAE was among the top five companies in terms of value of contracts awarded by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). That year its contract for developing CBP operational systems was valued at $97 million. U.S. Department of State 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. See also Chemonics Notes References 1955 establishments in California Companies based in Arlington County, Virginia Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1955 Engineering companies of the United States United States Department of State