PAE, a portfolio company of investment firm Platinum Equity, has agreed to merge with special purpose acquisition company Gores Holdings III (Nasdaq: GRSH) in a push to advance its strategic plan and growth efforts.

A partnership between PAE and T&H Services secured a potential $142M contract to help manage a U.S. Army installation located in Colorado. PAE said Friday it will support base operations at Fort Carson, which houses the military service’s 4th Infantry Division, 10th Special Forces Group and Reserve component. The company has …

James Benton, interim chief information officer at PAE since August 2018, has been named permanent CIO of the Arlington, Va.-based government services contractor. Benton will continue to oversee PAE’s information technology field support operations, global service desk and cybersecurity initiatives, the company said Monday. He said he looks forward to …

PAE has secured a spot on a potential five-year, $2.4B indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for training services to the U.S. Army. The company said Monday it will compete with three other firms for task orders under the Enterprise Training Services contract jointly awarded by Army Contracting Command and the military branch’s Program …

PAE has purchased Silver Spring, Maryland-based disaster response services provider Macfadden & Associates for an undisclosed sum. “Macfadden will expand PAE’s customer reach, building upon the relationship PAE established with [the U.S. Agency for International Development] when PAE supported their response to the Ebola outbreak in 2015,” PAE CEO John …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 25, 2017 — PAE CEO John Heller has joined the advisory council for American University’s Kogod School of Business and will provide mentorship and professional advice to help prepare graduates for employment, GovCon Executive reported Monday. “[The council] can coach or advise the university on what it can do to …

PAE has wrapped up its acquisition of Ashburn, Virginia-based professional services contractor FCi Federal for an undisclosed sum, a move that CEO John Heller says will expand PAE’s information and process management support offerings to the government sector. “As a combined team, we look forward to continuing the exceptional services that FCi’s customers have come …

PAE has agreed to buy FCi Federal for an undisclosed sum in a move to expand service offerings for federal government clients. Both companies expect to complete the transaction over the next 45 business days pending regulatory approvals, PAE said Monday. FCi Federal will become a business unit of PAE following …

Mark Monroe, former vice president of finance and corporate controller at Deltek, has joined Arlington, Virginia-based contractor PAE as corporate controller. He was most recently responsible for Deltek’s global accounting, corporate governance and financial reporting and analysis functions, as well as oversaw the financial aspects of six acquisition deals the enterprise software vendor previously …

Ken Myers, former director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, has joined Arlington, Va.-based government logistics service contractor PAE as president of the company’s national security solutions business unit. PAE said Monday Myers will oversee the NSS unit that PAE created in 2015 from its January 2015 acquisition of the former USIS global security and solutions business …