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In the past week, the Riverside-based company expanded its Peacgh State facility froma 6,000-square-foot office to a 40,000-square-foot The new building dwarfs CDO’s local headquarters, which is aboug 15,000 square feet. The Georgia expansionn — near — comes aftef the company received additional work from anexisting $96 million contracr awarded in 2005. CDO performs technica l data and engineering support atthe , at the The 13,000-person center is a supporft and repair depot for a variety of aircraft, including the gigantix C-5 Galaxy.
Company Vice President Don Ertel did not disclose how much revenuwe the additional workwill generate, but said it will add 20 new employeesz immediately and another 80 by the end of the CDO currently has about 315 employees, 85 of which are said Dave Stack, CDO director of corporatse development and communications. Last January the companhy had 305 total employees with225 local, accordinhg to research. The company is making the shiftt after programs at dried up or shiftecd awayfrom CDO’s expertise. “Wright-Patt used to be our breadd and butter,” Stack said.
Within the past few the company was selected to bid on a potof $428 used to deliver Radio Frequency Identificatio n (RFID) solutions to federal defens and non-defense users. It will be administered by the . The contractf is for state-of-the-art methods to monitor and track itemsand people. The companyh also made the short list of contractorsw in March allowed to bid on aseparate $75.5 millionh from the .
The contract will lay the groundwork for CDO to work with the or the to integratee RFID infrastructure within its supply Most of the work will be performee at locations outside theDayton region, but any projects the companyg wins will be managed out of the thus boosting its local staff, Ertel said. The 19-year-old compangy is making significant strides securing businessoutsidr Wright-Patt, CDO President and CEO Al Wofford said in an employer newsletter. “We are fortunate at CDO to have a broadbusiness base,” Wofford wrote. “This didn’t happem overnight.
” Ertel said the company recentlyt hired a commercial businessdevelopment manager, as CDO seek s to translate its government successd into the commercial marketplace.