mvn test fails with missing dependencies

[TobyHFerguson]

I tried executing mvn test and this is what I got (even after forcing an update using mvn -U test):

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
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[INFO] Building SparkUnitTestExamples 1.0-SNAPSHOT
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[WARNING] The POM for org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-core-asl:jar:${cdh.jackson.version} is missing, no dependency information available
[WARNING] The POM for org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-mapper-asl:jar:${cdh.jackson.version} is missing, no dependency information available
[WARNING] The POM for org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common:jar:2.6.0-cdh5.5.0-20151012.212720-541 is invalid, transitive dependencies (if any) will not be available, enable debug logging for more details
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[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
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[INFO] Total time: 0.966 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2016-07-03T18:36:11-07:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 20M/437M
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[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project SparkUnitTestExamples: Could not resolve dependencies for project com.cloudera.sa:SparkUnitTestExamples:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT: Failure to find org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-core-asl:jar:${cdh.jackson.version} in https://repository.cloudera.com/artifactory/cloudera-repos was cached in the local repository, resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of cloudera-repo has elapsed or updates are forced -> [Help 1]
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[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/DependencyResolutionException