CDO Technologies Inc. is ballooning its presence in Georgia and adding 100 employees, bolstering its total workforce by one-third to 400.
In the past week, the Riverside-based company expanded its Peach State facility from a 6,000-square-foot office to a 40,000-square-foot building.
The new building dwarfs CDO’s local headquarters, which is about 15,000 square feet.
The Georgia expansion — near Robins Air Force Base — comes after the company received additional work from an existing $96 million contract awarded in 2005.
CDO performs technical data and engineering support at the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, at the base. The 13,000-person center is a support and repair depot for a variety of aircraft, including the gigantic C-5 Galaxy.
Company Vice President Don Ertel did not disclose how much revenue the additional work will generate, but said it will add 20 new employees immediately and another 80 by the end of the year.
CDO currently has about 315 employees, 85 of which are local, said Dave Stack, CDO director of corporate development and communications.
Last January the company had 305 total employees with 225 local, according to Dayton Business Journal research.
The company is making the shift after programs at Wright-Patterson Air Force Basedried up or shifted away from CDO’s expertise.
“Wright-Patt used to be our bread and butter,” Stack said.
Within the past few months, the company was selected to bid on a pot of $428 million, used to deliver Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) solutions to federal defense and non-defense users. It will be administered by the U. S. Army.
The contract is for state-of-the-art methods to monitor and track items and people.
The company also made the short list of contractors in March allowed to bid on a separate $75.5 million from the Army Contracting Agency.
The contract will lay the groundwork for CDO to work with the Department of Defenseor the U.S. Coast Guard to integrate RFID infrastructure within its supply chain.
Most of the work will be performed at locations outside the Dayton region, but any projects the company wins will be managed out of the headquarters, thus boosting its local staff, Ertel said.
The 19-year-old company is making significant strides securing business outside Wright-Patt, CDO President and CEO Al Wofford said in an employee newsletter.
“We are fortunate at CDO to have a broad business base,” Wofford wrote. “This didn’t happen overnight.”
Ertel said the company recently hired a commercial business development manager, as CDO seeks to translate its government success into the commercial marketplace.
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