The project will be delivered by BT and Mr George said he planned to attend a briefing next week in the National Assembly about the project.

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Despite some opposition from locals, the Welsh Assembly has backed the project, developing business units and sponsoring changes to segregated airspace to enable UAV operations from the airport.

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Partner organizations of the project include the World Assembly of Youth, two UNESCO Chairs, Laval University, the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

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The project is funded by the assembly government and Cardiff environmental charity The Waterloo Foundation.

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It is estimated that the project will add 6, 000 assembly jobs and 10, 000 jobs with component suppliers.

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Project manager Jody Kress supervised the assembly of 36 giant pieces that were loaded onto flatbeds for the trip from South Dakota to Texas.

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Now this close-knit community is tackling its biggest project of all: reinventing a small-scale assembly line as a modern-day technological hub.

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One such project, according to the governor, was the assembly plant that Volkswagen opened last year in Chattanooga, Tenn.

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The plans went out to an assembly plant in southern China that Bevirt had engaged for an earlier project to make tripods for iPhones.

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The grant to buy the woodland came from Cydcoed - a Forestry Commission Wales community woodland project, which is funded by the European Union and Welsh Assembly Government.

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