On January 6, 2016, Oakridge
Global Energy Solutions (OTCQB: OGES) announced it had signed a deal to supply
its lithium-ion batteries, most likely its Patriot Series, to Maritime Tactical
Systems, Inc. (MARTAC) for use in that company’s Man-Portable Tactical
Autonomous System (MANTAS). This deal is a big deal for Oakridge, since the
market potential of the MANTAS is huge.
MANTAS is an Unmanned Surface
Vessel (USV), or water drone, that can be used to patrol waterways along the
shore line and in the open sea. They range in size from 9 inches to 50 feet. As
MARTAC gushes on its website: the potential for this technology is unlimited
through the utilization of COTS based equipment. COTS, for
commercial-off-the-shelf, is a U.S. Federal Acquisition Regulation term for
goods and services that can be purchased under government contract. MANTAS has
an auxiliary command and control system, known as The Tactical System Support
Command and Control Remote (TASKER), which has been field-proven many times
from thousands of miles away. TASKER is scalable from large integrated control
centers to hand-held device control, such as smart phones and tablets, by
individuals. MARTAC says its MANTAS drone can be controlled from a full room
command center, a mobile command center, an Android smartphone, a tablet or
even an Xbox and that it can reach 65 knots (about 75 miles per hour).
Maritime drones or water drones
are the less glamorous cousins of aerial drones, but they have as many uses as
their high-flying relations. A story on the Boeing Defense, Space &
Security website announces SHARCs prowl off the coast of Hawaii. The SHARC,
short for Sensor Hosting Autonomous Remote Craft, was a joint venture between
Boeing and Liquid Robotics. SHARCs can be used for data collection,
surveillance and acoustic monitoring. Again, maritime drones have been
successfully employed by the Italian Navy to destroy underwater WWII explosives
(http://dtn.fm/UKPd1). With the signing of the MARTAC contract, Oakridge hasn’t
wasted any time getting its Patriot Series of batteries to customers. It was
just October 2015, that the company announced (http://dtn.fm/8nVQv) ‘the
production launch of its Patriot Series line of battery systems for radio
controlled vehicles such as drones, multi-copters, aerial vehicles, water based
vehicles and land based vehicles that require long lasting levels of power.’
As CEO, Steve Barber, said at that
time, “This product line is geared toward those applications such as Drones and
R/C vehicles that require a long-lasting power source, without the puffing and
swelling, and poor lifecycles seen in many foreign manufactured batteries in
this market segment. This is a very exciting product line and we are really
pleased with the way that it underscores our mission statement of on-shoring
jobs and manufacturing back to the USA by providing the market with another
Made in the USA product instead of having to rely on imported products. And not
only is the Patriot Series range of R/C batteries a tremendous set of much
needed products that are being incredibly well received by the R/C market, it
is also a really fun, rapidly growing market segment that can be enjoyed by all
the family, and we are delighted to be playing a key role in improving
everyone’s ability to enjoy their participation in it.”
The Oakridge Patriot Series
product line is being released in 2,500mAh, 5,000mAh and 10,000mAh versions,
with plans to release additional models in spring of 2016. These batteries have
been tested for more than 600 charge / discharge cycles, which equates to more
than 1.5 years of cycling every day.
For more information, visit
www.oakridgeglobalenergy.com
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