R4: In the News
October 2012: FAA Verification & Validation (V&V) Summit
The 8th Annual Verification & Validation (V&V) Summit was held at the Clarion Hotel in Atlantic City, NJ on October 10-11, 2012. The V&V Summit included speakers and discussions from FAA, DOD, Boeing, SAIC, Carnegie Mellon, and R4, addressing many V&V elements that are critical to moving Next Generation air transportation system (NextGen) initiatives forward. Key objectives of the summit were:
- Foster a V&V best practices and corporate V&V philosophy
- Explore new and practical ways to apply V&V that better support acquisitions and decision making
- Promote V&V disciplines and culture
- Highlight "real world" ways to incorporate V&V into organizations operations
Rich Bormann, R4 Director of Engineering spoke on the system of systems initiatives in V&V.
February 2012: JIEDDO Counter-IED Strategic Plan Released
The Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) released its 2012-2016 counter-improvised explosive device (C-IED) strategic plan intended to provide the framework to coordinate the defense department's C-IED efforts. Click here to view DOD News Release.
February 2012: R4 Wins 3 Homeland Security Task Orders
Congratulations to R4 Incorporated, 442 Route 35 S, Eatontown, NJ, for winning the following task orders:
- New Jersey State Police (NJSP) Hazardous Materials Response Unit (HMRU) Rail Car Training Course
- New Jersey State Police (NJSP) Hazardous Materials Response Unit (HMRU) Confined Space Operations Course
- New Jersey State Police (NJSP) Hazardous Materials Response Unit (HMRU) Hazardous Materials Technician Training Course
July 2011: R4 Incorporated Awarded JOICEUR JAC Contract
R4 Incorporated is pleased to announce the award of a JOICEUR (Joint Intelligence Operations Center Europe) Analytics Center (JAC) A&P Support contract. JIOCEUR JAC at Royal Air Force Base Molesworth, UK is the primary European Theater intelligence organization responsible for maintain situational awareness for 52 countries spanning two land masses.
R4 will be supplying development, project management and information technology technical services that enable JIOCEUR to
1. Successfully provide the technical and operational support functions that enable JAC's analysis and production (A&P) mission, and
2. Successfully provide the technical and operational support functions that enable JIOCEUR to service a diverse set of national and international partners.
The period of performance has a twelve month base, with two additional twelve month options.
May 2011: R4 Incorporated Creates State-of-the-Art Real Time Incident Notification Software for Bomb Squads
R4 Incorporated, a defense service company providing integrated engineering, training, fielding, logistics and counter-IED solutions to various Federal agencies, including the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, is pleased to announce the roll out of Event and Personnel Intelligence Correlation - EPIC - R4's real-time incident notification engine and framework. EPIC provides real-time decision support and notification tools to gather and distribute mission-critical information from the right sources to the right places at the right time.
L. Scott Crockett, R4's CEO said, “This software is critical to minimizing confusion and increasing responsiveness, interoperability and safety officers in the field especially in situations where multiple locations are targeted.”
R4's Engineering Center has created a customizable real-time notification system tailored for customer individual needs. This capability developed from work with bomb squads in the Boston area. R4 engineers and subject matter experts used the EPIC framework to create an application that provides real-time situation reporting and incident notification with the ability to notify bomb squads regionally and/nationally of an emerging event. This application, known as BRIEF - Bomb Real-time Incident Notification - gives bomb squads the ability to execute real-time information sharing and the ability to initiate and register new cases with existing systems (such as BATS). BRIEF's expert systems turns raw data into actionable intelligence, leading to better assessment and decision-making during time-critical events.
Click here to view BRIEF in action.
May 2011: R4 Incorporated Launches Software Engineering Center
R4 Incorporated, a defense service company providing integrated engineering, training, fielding, logistics, and counter-IED solutions to various Federal agencies, including the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, is pleased to announce today the launch of its newest endeavor, the R4 Software Engineering Center.
The R4 Software Engineering Center specializes in development of high performance network-centric intelligent systems on a variety of platforms and interfaces, including mobile and desktop. Additionally, the Center's engineers are skilled in mission planning and execution, system integration, decision support, cyber security and real-time collaboration. Center expertise encompasses waterfall, prototyping, spiral, Scrum, and rapid application development methodologies.
“The Center brings together a highly-qualified team of software developers, engineering experts and civilian and DoD subject matter experts who have the training, experience and specific knowledge to provide R4's customers with exceptional products and services,” said L. Scott Crockett, R4's CEO.
May 2011: R4 Incorporated Hires Rich Bormann to Lead Its Software Engineering Center
R4 Incorporated, a defense service company providing integrated engineering, training, fielding, logistics and counter-IED solutions to various Federal agencies, including the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, is pleased to announce the hiring of Rich Bormann to lead its Software Engineering Center.
Mr. Bormann is responsible for full life-cycle software engineering and leads R4's engineering efforts across all business lines including the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security. He has a wide variety of experience covering the architecture, design and development of projects ranging from research and development to production. Mr. Bormann has experience with diverse software development methodologies including waterfall, prototyping spiral, Scrum and rapid application development. He is particularly focused on developing customer-focused applications in the area of artificial intelligence, expert systems and robotic elements supporting system of systems and network centric efforts. Mr. Bormann is also involved in developing web-based solutions leveraging cloud computing and Web 2.0.
August 2010: R4 Incorporated Receives Defense Contract Audit Agency's Highest Rating
R4 Incorporated, a defense service company providing integrated engineering, training, fielding, logistics, and counter-IED solutions to various Federal agencies, including the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, is pleased to announce that following a thorough accounting system audit, the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) granted the company a rating of adequate, its highest rating level.
DCAA performs all necessary contract audits for the Department of Defense and provides accounting and financial advisory services regarding contracts and subcontracts to all DoD components responsible for procurement and contract administration.
Scott Crockett, R4's CEO, commented that “It's great that our accounting system got a clean bill of health from DCAA. Now we are ready to move ahead with additional support helping to protect and serve Warfighters in theater.”
July 2010: R4 Incorporated Secures $10M Line of Credit with PNC Bank, NA
R4 Incorporated, a defense service company providing integrated engineering, training, fielding, logistics, and counter-IED solutions to various Federal agencies, including the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, is pleased to announce today the acquisition of a $10M line of credit with PNC Bank, NA.
R4's CEO, L. Scott Crockett, noted that “This line of credit provides R4 the flexibility to offer even better service to our customers.”
