The descent lasted three minutes and 30 seconds, and the engines remained operational, the report said.
He said he was pleased the report "recognises the operational improvements that have been made at the agency".
"The number of authorized, operational NP battalions is 38, " the report said.
Last week a Washington pressure group, the Project on Government Oversight, released a Pentagon report from last year setting out operational difficulties with the Predator.
"There is considerable financial exposure facing the health board in the period ahead and a comprehensive range of strategic and operational savings schemes are required, " said the report.
The operational power should be returned to the State Department, the commission report argued.
Lietaer and Dunne report more than 4, 000 unofficial, private currencies already operational in the world today.
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Officials with the U.S. training command blamed insufficient staff and the lack of a "fully operational distribution network" for the poor record-keeping, the GAO report states.
"U.S. military members' interaction with the third country national females did not present a risk to the operational mission or to U.S. national security, " the report said.
Halliburton said that the report "accurately places responsibility on BP as the well owner for its operational decisions, " which included using a heavy fluid designed to keep gas from entering the well, called drilling mud, that was "too light" and probably mixed with the cement at the bottom of the well, and drilling too narrow a well.
Using unique alphanumeric identifiers for financial firms would improve OTC derivatives markets, make it easier for regulators to see aggregated risk, and, once systems were changed over, would simplify record keeping, improve operational efficiency for firms and eliminate a lot of reconciliation work, according to a report the BIS issued from the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems and the Technical Committee of IOSCO.
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But, according to the report, there remains a serious lack of battlefield helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, effective operational radios and mine-proof land vehicles.
The report's call for central-bank autonomy, for instance, simply meant "greater operational independence rather than true independence from the government in making major monetary-policy decisions, " Mr. Prasad said.
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