The Virginia-based information technology company has opened an office at 2661 Commons Blvd. next to the Mall at Fairfield Commons and has scheduled a Feb. 9 job fair for prospective employees.
The job fair is scheduled from 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn, 3520 Pentagon Park Blvd. in Beavercreek.
Software engineers, hardware engineers and administrative specialists will be among the employees sought, a company spokesman said.
The company wants to have the new employees in place by April 1 because the Air Force could start ordering work by then, said Clarence Pape, the company’s vice president of professional services for defense customers. Any hiring after that would depend on how much Air Force business the company secures, Pape said.
The five-year contract involves 19 companies and will likely require hundreds of local workers, depending on how much work the government orders, officials said. The Air Force awarded the initial contract in December, including a base year and four, renewable one-year options.
The companies will compete for work to serve the Air Force Materiel Command, Aeronautical Systems Center, Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Institute of Technology, National Air and Space Intelligence Center and the planned Air Force Global Logistics Support Center to be created this year as part of an AFMC restructuring.
Intelligent Decisions said it will have nine partners for its part of the contract, including two already in the Dayton area, Belcan Corp. and Computers Universal Inc. More partners could be needed , Pape said.
Intelligent Decisions, founded in 1988 and headquartered in Ashburn, Va., provides various IT services to government and business customers.
“The (hiring) potential is huge,” said Gus DeLucia, team leader at the Dayton office of Belcan TechServices, which is working on employee recruiting for Intelligent Decisions. DeLucia said the local hiring potential from this contract could reach “certainly a couple of hundred,” but he also cautioned that hiring will depend on government needs.
DeLucia and Dennis Cable, in charge of business development for Belcan, said they are confident they will be able to find qualified employees in the Dayton region, but they said they can also look for candidates from Cincinnati and Columbus.
Barbara Hayde, president of The Entreprenuers Center, a Dayton business incubator, said it’s her sense that finding the right people with the right technical skills can be a challenge, even in a slow economy. She knows of tenants in her center who are having difficulty filling highly technical positions.
“I think it is difficult. I don’t think it’s impossible,” Hayde said.
DeLucia said the company will be looking for a “broad range” of employees for engineering, information technology and administrative positions. ID and Belcan are most interested in candidates who had had experience working for government contractors.
Staff Writer Thomas Gnau contributed to this story.
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