PAE Awarded Defense Security Service’s Industrial Security Achievement Award; John Heller Comments

Arlington, Virginia-based PAE has received the Defense Security Service‘s James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award for the company’s support to Naval Air Station Patuxent River.

PAE said Tuesday 42 facilities received the Cogswell award, which DSS presented at a National Classification Management Society seminar June 8.

PAE CEO John Heller noted the company has supported the U.S. Navy at Patuxent River in the past three decades.

The global logistics and stability operations support provider said less than one percent of 13,500 cleared contractors are given the Cogswell award annually and this year marks the 50th anniversary of the award.