Sentences with phrase «operational testing of»

Ability to perform installation, analysis, checkups and malfunction detection plus operational testing of flight controls, fuel systems, and all associated components for aircraft

The Secretary shall carry out a comprehensive program of intelligent transportation system research and development, and operational tests of intelligent vehicles, intelligent infrastructure systems, and other similar activities that are necessary to carry out this chapter.

Performed numerous check points and operational tests of electrical systems onboard various vessels.

Conduct operational tests of intrusion detection, and contraband equipment according to documented procedures.

Not exact matches

While it received approval to dig a two - mile test tunnel beneath the headquarters of Musk's space travel company, SpaceX, in Hawthorne, California, the Boring Company will have to convince a number of local governments that its tunnels will be useful in order to conduct enough research and development to make an operational tunnel network a reality.

With the need to meet ongoing operational requirements and deliver on future procurement needs at a time of budget stress, the ability to earmark resources to build Canada - China cooperation will be a true test of priorities.

Nonetheless, the New York Fed's trading desk has conducted very small MBS sales to test the operational readiness of such transactions.

Otto sports five test trucks in its fleet, and announced that two more should be operational until the end of 2016.

Second, White focused on the SEC's plan to improve its grasp of portfolio composition risks and operational risks by: requiring better data reporting and risk controls, particularly with respect to derivatives; mandating that investment advisers create transition plans to prepare for major business disruptions; and requiring large investment advisers and funds to submit to annual stress testing.

How can you lose with an operational definition like that from a collection of a laboratory of «from anywhere» without, well, with I suppose, there own added variables to... test.

While not technically a menu trend, counter-service dining continues to remain popular at all types of restaurants nationwide, signaling an operational and design trend that could easily stand the test of time.

This represents a fraction of one percent of the 28,000 operational CBT test takers and 60,000 CBT field test takers in spring 2017.

«Our Department of Aviation does an amazing job in all regards, but especially in keeping the airport clear and operational during our harsh Upstate New York winters,» said Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. «Along with the honor of hosting the FAA's UAS Test Site meeting, this week has served as a real testament to the good work being done at Griffiss and shows the whole country what we have to offer.»

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Congress must approve the FY 2018 appropriations by October 1 this year, on the eve of several key census field tests targeting 700,000 households in Rhode Island, Washington state and West Virginia to finalize operational designs for the 2020 count.

One of those vaccines, developed by UTMB and Profectus, has been undergoing testing in the Galveston National Laboratory, the only fully operational Biosafety Level 4 laboratory on an academic campus in the U.S.

«We only need two to complete our operational tests,» says Trey Taylor, Verdant's president and head of market development.

Enjoying his first space flight, European Space Agency astronaut Mogensen tested SkinSuit over two days as part of an Operational and Technical Evaluation.

Despite a few setbacks — the river's powerful flow damaged the rotors and broke off some of the original fiberglass and steel blades — the company has managed to keep two of the turbines operational, supply electricity to a nearby supermarket and, more recently, attract $ 8.5 million in funding from sources including the U.S. Department of Energy and the Canadian government to further develop and test its technology.

The researchers have also tested a full - scale, cross-section of a tower cell for operational loads and extreme loads for a 2.3 megawatt Siemens turbine.

But the NAS report concluded that once the planned International Monitoring System of the CTBT is fully operational (it is about two - thirds complete today), no underground test with an explosive yield of more than one kiloton could «be confidently hidden.»

The fault was resolved, and now the telescope faces six months of testing before becoming fully operational.

Apparently to moderate expectations, the NASA press release announcing the date cautions that as a «development test, the likelihood of encountering an issue is higher than with operational missions.»

The mirror will also be designed in a similar segmented approach to those being tested for the James Webb telescope, allowing it to fit within the fairings of the Delta - IV Heavy Launch Vehicle (pictured below) pegged to lift the gigantic telescope into its operational orbit.

There in1991, he became the Supervisory General Engineer of the Patriot Missile System, leading the execution of all aspects of developmental testing and combined developmental / operational testing in the acquisition of a major military system.

«During testing, we intentionally stress the cells somewhat harder than real - world applications in an effort to speed up the aging,» said Joseph Luther, who along with Joseph Berry directed the work titled «Tailored Interfaces of Unencapsulated Perovskite Solar Cells for > 1000 Hours of Operational Stability.»

Shotwell said SpaceX's test flight of the crew version of its Dragon spacecraft would be late in 2016 and the first operational mission in early 2017.

Until relatively recently, fitness testing in the armed forces could be described as cap - badge specific meaning that some branches of the military would use one set of tests and other branches would use another irrespective of their actual operational duties.

With the introduction of OFTs and MSTs, it's clear the armed forces take operational fitness seriously but, unless you have access to firing ranges, artillery shells, assault course obstacles or a willing training partner who is happy to be carried on your shoulders or dragged along the floor, most of the new military fitness tests are not really practical for the average exercise enthusiast.

The Zarb Commission relied on the set of school districts meeting the Regents» operational definition of an adequate education: 80 percent of their 4th graders passed the math and English exams and passed five of the high - school graduation tests.

Within the year every part of the fire alarm system should be tested to ensure the system is fully operational.

These practice tests will be freely available on the Smarter Balanced web site (www.SmarterBalanced.org); they will utilize the same software system that is being used for the operational test and will feature many of the tools, accommodations and accessibility features that will be included in the final software package.

Ritz said after phone calls with the U.S. Department of Education regarding getting the state in compliance to extend its No Child Left Behind waiver, U.S. Department of Education officials said a spring test in 2015 must be fully operational in order for the state to keep the waiver.

Educators and bias members will be asked to participate in the test construction meeting to build operational core forms to meet PARCC assessment blueprints for the performance - based and short - answer components of the summative assessment, scheduled to be administered during the school year.

As part of the field test, the state will be examining technological capacity and the quality of test questions, while helping students and teachers prepare for next year's first operational test, said Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction in a press release.

The «test of the test,» which runs through June 6, will serve multiple purposes — but mainly to gauge the accuracy and fairness of the test questions ahead of the new assessments that will become operational next year.

The Board on Testing and Assessment of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences has stated: «VAM estimates of teacher effectiveness should not be used to make operational decisions because such estimates are far too unstable to be considered fair or reliable.»

Completion of this extensive field testing gives new momentum to edTPA, which is scheduled to be fully operational and available to all states and teacher candidates beginning September 18.

In addition, the Smarter Balanced sample items are displayed in a simulated test platform that does not include accessibility tools and accommodations options that will be available through the operational assessment system - such as Braille, translation options, and the ability to change font size, highlight text, or magnify portions of items.

A minimum of 25 percent of student responses for the pilot test, the pre-calibration administration, and the national operational administrations are double - scored to monitor the reliability between scorers (inter-rater reliability).

Prior to scoring the pre-calibration administration in mathematics and reading and the first operational administration in all other subjects, the NCES standing committee will again review the scoring guides in light of student responses and select appropriate training packets for the operational assessments, particularly where refinements to items and / or scoring guides were made after the pilot test.

These sample tests are approximately one half - length of the operational test, match the test blueprint, and include the same item types.

The field test was not used for accountability purposes, but was instead a test to collect information on a wide range of questions to ensure that potential questions are fully vetted and that the operational test uses appropriate questions to assess students learning.

Well, SBAC and PARCC federal grants from the feds expire Sept 2014, and so they would like everyone to think the test development work is complete and 2015 is an operational testing year, when in fact it is really the last full year of test development needed to get interpretable or meaningful scores.

Traditionally, the terminology «field» test for a large scale K - 12 test development project has been an exercise using the final tests to generate the data necessary to do (for standards - based tests) the standards - setting or cut scores for use the first year of «operational» tests.

Re the 12 - week window, several factors are that item - tryout studies are not strongly sensitive to time - of - instructional year like operational programs where you want all students taking the test within a relatively small window for comparisons across students or groups of students, nor are you generally concerned about test security since it is a low stakes research data collection.

Each student gets a more or less random sample of items, some students will get a bunch of hard ones, some will get easy ones, in fact the test developer doesn't know yet which items will be hard or which ones will be easy, and in fact the expectation is that roughly half the items in the study will not have the right statistical characteristics to survive and be included in the final operational tests anyway.

Additionally, SBE policy TEST - 016 requires public schools to use the course - specific operational assessments as the only final exams for specific courses and to use the results from all course - specific operational assessments as a minimum of twenty percent (20 %) of the student's final grade for each respective course.

The tests compared operational, vibration, and air emission differences between regular ultralow sulfur diesel (ULSD) fuel and a 76/33 blend of ULSD and Amyris Renewable Diesel (ARD) fuel, which is derived from sugar.

The Secretary shall issue guidelines and requirements for the reporting and evaluation of operational tests and deployment projects carried out under this chapter.