PAE was awarded a five-year, $12.8 million contract by the United States Agency for International Development to support the Agency’s Feed the Future Bangladesh Agricultural Infrastructure Development Activity. PAE will build the capacity of the Government of Bangladesh’s Local Government Engineering Department to modernize infrastructure in priority rural farming communities. The Activity will consist of improvements to roads, irrigation and drainage systems, as well as market and collection centers, and cold storage facilities as a means of increasing access to markets, strengthening agricultural production, and improving farmers’ livelihoods. PAE will strengthen the LGED’s capacity to strategically plan, construct and maintain rural infrastructure in the Feed the Future Zone of Influence and the USAID/Bangladesh Zone of Resilience target geographic areas. To minimize post-harvest losses, the work will improve roads, support irrigation operations and maintenance, and develop best practices for lasting, sustainable change.