Part of that duty to test includes researching the SOTA 2006, Emmanuel P. Papadakis, Financial justification of nondestructive testing, page 64:
Each of these critical components will be modeled, defining their current SOTA and the forecast for improvement in their technology. 1989, American Society of Mechanical Engineers with Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Chemical Society, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Nuclear Society, Society of Automotive Engineers, IEEE Xplore, Proceedings of the Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, page 718:
So far, so BERT, but here comes the twist: Instead of submitting yet another "we have SOTA, accept please" type paper, the authors were suspicious of this seemingly great success. 2019 August 26, Benjamin Heinzerling, “NLP's Clever Hans Moment has Arrived”, in The Gradient:
SOTA manuals were specifically developed to document exactly what die state of the art was at the time the manual was prepared. 2000, A. Roger Greenway, Environmental Permitting Handbook: