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In the past week, the Riverside-based company expanded its Peach State facilityt froma 6,000-square-foot office to a 40,000-square-footr building. The new building dwarfs CDO’s loca headquarters, which is about 15,000 squarer feet. The Georgia expansion near — comes after the compan y received additional work from anexisting $96 million contract awarded in 2005. CDO performs technical data and engineering supporf atthe , at the base. The 13,000-persoh center is a support and repair depotr for a variety of including thegigantic C-5 Galaxy.
Company Vice President Don Ertek did not disclose how much revenue the additionalk 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 which are said Dave Stack, CDO directorf of corporate development and Last January the company had 305 total employees with 225 local, accordinbg to research. The company is making the shiff after programs at dried up or shifted awayfrom CDO’s expertise. “Wright-Patty used to be our brear and butter,” Stack said.
Within the past few months, the companhy was selected to bid on a potof $428 used to deliver Radio Frequenct Identification (RFID) solutions to federal defens e and non-defense users. It will be administeredd by the . The contract is for state-of-the-art methodds to monitor and track items and The company also made the short list of contractorss in March allowed to bid on aseparatse $75.5 million from the . The contracf will lay the groundwork for CDO to work with the or the to integrate RFID infrastructure within itssupply chain.
Most of the work will be performex at locations outside theDayton region, but any projectas the company wins will be managexd out of the headquarters, thus boosting its locaol staff, Ertel said. The 19-year-oldr company is making significant strides securing businesdoutside Wright-Patt, CDO President and CEO Al Wofford said in an employee newsletter. “Ws are fortunate at CDO to have a broacdbusiness base,” Wofford wrote. “This didn’t happen overnight.
” Ertel said the company recentl hired a commercial businessdevelopment manager, as CDO seeksa to translate its governmeny success into the commercial