Some new technologies, such as GPS Machine Automation, require a local expert to support the contractor. Atlantic Laser Specialists, Inc., of Matawan, is a high-tech equipment dealer and was the company that introduced JRi not only to GPS technology but earlier to laser technology. The company is a Leica Geosystems dealer.

In 1970, Atlantic Laser Specialists sold laser equipment to FJI when Ientile was working with his father. As laser technology developed, FJI and later on JRi continued to update the laser equipment in their respective fleets. Today, JRi owns some the latest Leica Geosystems laser and level equipment.

GPS technology was first introduced by Atlantic Laser to Ientile in 2001 when he bought a 2D system. It only took a few excavating and grading projects to convince Ientile that GPS technology for construction was here to stay. Again, the reason is elementary to Ientile; it helped turn his projects into greater profitability.

Ientile was no longer content using GPS 2D technology once Atlantic Laser Specialists introduced him to the new Leica Geosystems GradeSmart 3D technology that is designed specifically for bulldozers, excavators and motor graders. The GradeSmart 3D product was purchased by Ientile in time for a big industrial site-preparation project, the Amboy Center, Perth Amboy. This project was started in May 2006.

The project calls for excavating 500,000 in situ cu. yd. of clay-like marl and relocating it to different below-grade areas on the site for backfilling and bringing the areas to specified grade. Here is where the company's valued engineering services coupled with the new GPS 3-D technology paid off big for the owner of the project. The JRi engineering-surveying team of Kenneth Ploskonka, CE and Stan Wabisky, General Superintendent and Chief Surveyor, made an alternative proposal to the design engineering firm's site layout by suggesting the complete 65-acre site be lowered by nine inches.