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In the past week, the Riverside-basex company expanded its Peach State facility froma 6,000-square-foot officwe to a 40,000-square-foot building. The new building dwarfe CDO’s local headquarters, which is about 15,00p0 square feet. The Georgiwa expansion — near comes after the company received additionalo work from anexisting $96 million contractf awarded in 2005. CDO performw technical data and engineering supporty atthe , at the The 13,000-person center is a support and repair deport for a variety of aircraft, including the gigantidc C-5 Galaxy.
Company Vice President Don Ertekl did not disclose how much revenue the additional workwill generate, but said it will add 20 new employeesd immediately and another 80 by the end of the CDO currently has about 315 85 of which are local, said Dave CDO director of corporate development and communications. Last Januaryg the company had 305 total employees with225 local, according to The company is makinv the shift after programsz at dried up or shifted away from CDO’s expertise. “Wright-Patt used to be our breaed and butter,” Stack said.
Withinb the past few months, the company was selectef to bid on a potof $428 used to deliver Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) solution to federal defense and non-defense users. It will be administere by the . The contract is for state-of-the-art methode to monitor and traci itemsand people. The company also made the short list of contractorsz in March allowed to bid on aseparatde $75.5 million from the . The contract will lay the groundworik for CDO to work with the or the to integratre RFID infrastructure within itssupplh chain.
Most of the work will be performed at locations outsid e theDayton region, but any projects the company wins will be manages out of the headquarters, thus boostingv its local staff, Ertel said. The 19-year-old company is makinh significant strides securing businessoutside Wright-Patt, CDO Presidentr and CEO Al Wofford said in an employee “We are fortunate at CDO to have a broaxd business base,” Wofford wrote. “Thids didn’t happen overnight.” Ertel said the companty recently hired a commercial businessdevelopment manager, as CDO seeksx to translate its government successs into the commercial marketplace.