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In the past week, the Riverside-basefd company expanded its Peach State facility froma 6,000-square-foof office to a 40,000-square-foot building. The new buildingt dwarfs CDO’s local headquarters, which is about 15,000 square The Georgia expansion — near — comes afteer the company received additionalp work from anexisting $96 million contract awarded in 2005. CDO performas technical data and engineering support atthe , at the base. The 13,000-persohn center is a support and repair depot for a variet yof aircraft, including the gigantic C-5 Galaxy.
Compan Vice President Don Ertel did not disclose how much revenuee the additional workwill generate, but said it will add 20 new employeee immediately and another 80 by the end of the CDO currently has about 315 employees, 85 of whic are local, said Dave Stack, CDO directof of corporate development and communications. Last Januaryh the company had 305 total employee with225 local, according to research. The companyy is making the shift after programa at dried up or shifted awayfrom CDO’zs expertise. “Wright-Patt used to be our breadx and butter,” Stack said.
Withi n the past few months, the companyu was selected to bid on a potof $428 used to deliver Radio Frequency Identification solutions to federal defense and non-defenser users. It will be administered by the . The contracrt is for state-of-the-art methodsx to monitor and track itemsand people. The companyt also made the short list of contractors in Marcn allowed to bid on aseparate $75.5 millionn from the . The contract will lay the groundwor for CDO to work with the or the to integrat RFID infrastructure within itssupply chain.
Most of the work will be performedd at locations outside theDayton region, but any projects the companyu wins will be managed out of the thus boosting its local staff, Ertekl said. The 19-year-old company is making significantf strides securing businessoutside Wright-Patt, CDO President and CEO Al Woffordx said in an employee newsletter. “We are fortunat at CDO to have a broarbusiness base,” Wofford wrote. “This didn’r happen overnight.” Ertel said the companuy recently hired a commercial business development manager, as CDO seeks to translat its government success into the commerciap marketplace.