Aura Products Featured in DOD Report to Congress.EL SEGUNDO El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and , Calif. -- Aura Systems, Inc.'s (Pink Sheets:AUSI AUSI Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute AUSI Associated Underwater Scuba Instructors (Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia) ) VIPER viper, any of a large number of heavy-bodied, poisonous snakes of the family Viperidae, characterized by erectile, hypodermic fangs. The fangs are folded back against the roof of the mouth except when the snake strikes. product has been featured in a US Government report from the Department of Defense Office of Technology Transition to the US Congress dated August 2006. The following is an excerpt ex·cerpt n. A passage or segment taken from a longer work, such as a literary or musical composition, a document, or a film. tr.v. ex·cerpt·ed, ex·cerpt·ing, ex·cerpts 1. from the report: "Aura Systems: AuraGen Soldiers in the DoD Joint Communications Group operating in Iraq and Afghanistan are using AuraGen VIPER, a mobile under-hood induction power generator, developed by Aura Systems, Inc., for their electricity needs. The soldiers initially planned to use conventional generator systems, or gensets as their primary source of power, however, they were struggling with the disadvantages of this less advanced technology. Most conventional gensets require 30 minutes of preparation time to be started and should be shut down every 100 hours for scheduled routine maintenance. The soldiers needed something that could operate continuously whether they were moving or not, during down time or in combat. The VIPER addresses these needs. It provides the soldiers with 60 Hertz hertz (hûrts) [for Heinrich R. Hertz], abbr. Hz, unit of frequency, equal to 1 cycle per second. The term is combined with metric prefixes to denote multiple units such as the kilohertz (1,000 Hz), megahertz (1,000,000 Hz), and gigahertz of alternating current and/or direct current at all times. It also can operate in engine-off silent mode and does not need scheduled routine maintenance. The soldiers ran the VIPER for 60 days non-stop in one operation and in another they ran it continuously for 40 days." The VIPER (Military AuraGen) has been used in combat by US forces in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq and has withstood the test of time under battle conditions. AuraGen, in addition to the military application, is used in industries such as emergency services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' , telecommunications, utility, marine, oil and gas industry and government services. For more information see the Company's website, http://www.aurasystems.com/. |
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