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R4 Incorporated Honored with New Jersey Small Business Award

Logistics and training organization provides soldiers with total training solutions

January 3, 2008—Eatontown, New Jersey—R4 Incorporated (R4) of Eatontown has been awarded the New Jersey Small Business Development Centers Success Award for 2007 (NJSBDC), an award which honors the highest revenue-generating small business in Monmouth and Ocean counties. R4 provides total training solutions to U.S. Army soldiers and saw its sales grow from $200,000 in 2005 to over $25 million in 2007. 

R4 provides quick-reaction, rapid-response training support to legacy, interim and future systems that help their primary customers—our military service men and women. In just three years the company has expanded from a 4-person organization to 65 employees, and from 1 facility in Eatontown to 19 locations around the country and overseas.

“R4 is completely motivated by the needs of the soldier, and we pride ourselves on walking side-by-side with our customers,” said R4 President David Lewis. “We provide a hands-on link between technology and the warfighter. Our employees are actually embedded with soldiers in the battlefield in order to understand their challenges and needs. This in-theater approach is where we beta-test all products with our customers until they precisely meet the needs of our soldiers.”

R4 has a unique business model: Most of the 65 R4 employees are former soldiers who have lived the soldier’s life. Employees of R4 pride themselves on being able to speak the soldier’s language, and, as such, are able to train the soldiers on the battlefield by having a natural affinity to convert “geek speak” into “soldier speak.”

“Customers and soldiers rely on R4 because we provide a crucial hands-on link between technology and the warfighter, bringing the most relevant and much needed products to our soldiers on the battlefield,” Lewis said. “Our mission is soldier survivability, so the R4 philosophy of ‘when they need it, where they need it, we’ll be there’ is more than just a saying to us. We say it because we mean it and we say it because we lived it.”

About R4
R4 is a service-disabled veteran-owned company that provides reliable fielding support and soldier-to-soldier total training solutions in a rapid-response environment. From product concept refinement to full-rate production and system decommission, R4 supports the warfighter with boots-on-the-ground fielding and training, Performance-Based Logistics and hands-on Integrated Logistic Solutions.