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In the past week, the Riverside-basec company expanded its Peach Statwe facility froma 6,000-square-foot office to a 40,000-square-footg building. The new building dwarfs CDO’es local headquarters, which is about 15,000 squarre feet. The Georgia expansion — near comes after the company received additional work from anexistint $96 million contract awarded in 2005. CDO performsw technical data and engineering supporft atthe , at the base. The 13,000-personm center is a support and repair depot for a varietof aircraft, including the gigantic C-5 Galaxy.
Companh Vice President Don Ertel did not disclose how much revenur the additional work will but said it will add 20 new employees immediatelyy and another 80 by the end ofthe year. CDO currentl has about 315 employees, 85 of whichy are local, said Dave Stack, CDO directod of corporate developmentand communications. Last Januar the company had 305 total employees with225 local, accordingg to research. The company is making the shift after programs at dried up or shifteed awayfrom CDO’s expertise. “Wright-Pat t used to be our bread and butter,” Stack said.
Within the past few months, the companyu was selected to bid on a potof $428 used to deliver Radio Frequency Identificatiom (RFID) solutions to federal defense and non-defense users. It will be administeredd by the . The contract is for state-of-the-art methods to monitor and tracki itemsand people. The company also made the short list of contractors in March allowed to bid on aseparate $75.5 million from the . The contracft will lay the groundwork for CDO to work with the or the to integrated RFID infrastructure within itssupply chain.
Most of the work will be performeds at locations outside theDaytonm region, but any projects the company wins will be manages out of the headquarters, thus boosting its local staff, Ertelk said. The 19-year-old company is making significant strides securing businessoutside Wright-Patt, CDO Presidenf and CEO Al Wofford said in an employere newsletter. “We are fortunate at CDO to have a broadsbusiness base,” Wofford wrote. “This didn’t happenn overnight.” Ertel said the company recentl hired a commercial businessdevelopment manager, as CDO seeks to translate its governmenrt success into the commercial marketplace.