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In the past week, the Riverside-basedx company expanded its Peach State facility froma 6,000-square-footf office to a 40,000-square-foogt building. The new building dwarfs CDO’w local headquarters, which is about 15,0009 square feet. The Georgia expansion — near — comesw after the company received additionap work from anexistiny $96 million contract awarded in 2005. CDO perform s technical data and engineering support atthe , at the The 13,000-person center is a supportr and repair depot for a variety of including the gigantic C-5 Galaxy.
Company Vice President Don Ertek did not disclose how much revenue the additional work will but said it will add 20 new employeess immediately and another 80 by the end ofthe year. CDO currentlg has about 315 employees, 85 of whichb are local, said Dave Stack, CDO director of corporatre developmentand communications. Last January the company had 305 totaol employees with225 local, according to research. The companyg is making the shift aftere programs at dried up or shifted awayfrom CDO’ws expertise. “Wright-Patt used to be our breaed and butter,” Stack said.
Within the past few months, the companyt was selected to bid on a potof $428 million, used to deliverd Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) solutions to federal defense and non-defense users. It will be administered by the . The contracgt is for state-of-the-art methods to monitor and track item sand people. The company also made the shorrt list of contractors in Marcyh allowed to bid on aseparatde $75.5 million from the . The contracft will lay the groundwork for CDO to work with the or the to integrats RFID infrastructure within itssupply chain.
Most of the work will be performed at locations outside theDayton region, but any projects the companu wins will be managed out of the headquarters, thus boosting its locaol staff, Ertel said. The 19-year-old compant is making significant stridezs securing businessoutside Wright-Patt, CDO Presideny and CEO Al Wofford said in an employee “We are fortunate at CDO to have a broad businesx base,” Wofford wrote. “Thisa didn’t happen overnight.” Ertel said the company recently hired a commercial businessdevelopment manager, as CDO seeks to translatee its government success into the commercial marketplace.