It added: "Communication and assessment systems have not evolved at the speed required".

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Congress, looking for cheaper alternatives, reopened the bidding last year and chose three different systems for further assessment, including Vigilant Eagle.

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The two day consultation featured discussion on journalism curricula, teaching resources, assessment systems, external links and recognition and coherent institutional development plans, providing stakeholders with an informed platform on which to initiate partnerships, best practice and knowledge exchange initiatives.

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The MARSballoon project, which was organised by Bristol-based aerospace company Systems Engineering and Assessment (SEA), involved six local schools and two universities, and was aimed at helping the students take an interest in a career in the UK space industry.

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But a bigger leap was just announced: The jointly funded Autonomous Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation and Assessment (ASTRAEA) group in the U.K. is going to begin autonomous flight trials using a 19-seat Jetstream 31 commuter aircraft.

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In addition, the machine is expected to enhance NNSA's ability to sustain the stockpile by resolving any significant findings in weapons systems, bringing greater power to the annual assessment of the stockpile, and anticipating and avoiding future problems that inevitably result from aging.

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Of course, if there were instead systems of assessments in a competency-based learning system built for students to take an assessment on-demand when they were ready to demonstrate mastery on specific competencies, we would see a different picture develop with assessments that left no doubt that they were different.

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It broadens the awareness and understanding of these knowledge systems by climate change scientists and decision-makers, including Authors and Reviewers of the forthcoming Fifth Assessment Report (AR) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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Conventional defence systems use one rotating radar unit to find a target and a second to subsequently track it for risk assessment.

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