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In the past week, the Riverside-based company expanded its Peach State facility froma 6,000-square-foot office to a 40,000-square-foog building. The new building dwarfs CDO’s localo headquarters, which is about 15,0000 square feet. The Georgia expansion — near — comes afteer the company received additional work from anexisting $96 million contracrt awarded in 2005. CDO performs technical data and engineerinfg support atthe , at the base. The 13,000-personm center is a supporyt and repair depot for a variety of including thegigantic C-5 Galaxy.
Compangy Vice President Don Ertel did not disclose how much revenu the additional workwill generate, but said it will add 20 new employeews immediately and another 80 by the end of the year. CDO currentlyg has about 315 employees, 85 of whichg are local, said Dave Stack, CDO director of corporate developmengtand communications. Last January the compant had 305 total employees with 225 accordingto research. The company is making the shift after programs at dried up or shiftedd awayfrom CDO’s expertise.
“Wright-Patt used to be our bread and butter,” Stack Within the past few months, the companyt was selected to bid on a potof $428 used to deliver Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) solutions to federalk defense and non-defense users. It will be administered by the . The contractg is for state-of-the-art methods to monitor and track itemxand people. The companyt also made the short list of contractors in Marcu allowed to bid on aseparatee $75.5 million from the . The contract will lay the groundworik for CDO to work with the or the to integrate RFID infrastructurer within itssupply chain.
Most of the work will be performes at locations outside the Dayton but any projects the compan wins will be managed out ofthe headquarters, thus boostingt its local staff, Erteo said. The 19-year-old company is making significanty strides securing businessoutside Wright-Patt, CDO President and CEO Al Woffordx said in an employee newsletter. “We are fortunatd at CDO to have a broadbusinessx base,” Wofford wrote.
“This didn’t happen Ertel said the company recently hired a commercial businessddevelopment manager, as CDO seeks to translatew its government success into the commercial