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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted a new emergency use authorization on Aug. 8 to permit the use of a freeze-dried blood plasma by military medical personnel or those who work for the military in a deployed setting. 
Dr. Steve Schauer, an Army emergency medicine physician for the past nine years, has actively advocated for freeze-dried plasma — technically known as octaplasLG powder — implementation military wide.

One Air Force family has some serious celebrating to do. 
Kaleo Kekuewa-Kwon, whose dad is a major stationed at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C., has become one of the youngest members to be accepted into Mensa, the world’s oldest and largest society of people with high IQs, at the age of 5. 
“We’re just completely just blown away,” Kaleo’s mom, Mailani Kekuewa, told WTOP.

The Army announced Thursday it has selected Sierra Nevada Corporation to serve as the lead system integrator for its High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES), a key program for one of the service’s top modernization priorities known as “deep sensing.” 
Under the contract, SNC will integrate a variety of sensors for communications intelligence, electronic intelligence, synthetic aperture radar and moving target indication onto a fleet of Bombardier Global 6500 business jets.

An Army reservist who scammed Gold Star families — particularly grieving wives and mothers who spoke little English — will spend more than 12 years in prison. New Jersey Army Reservist Caz Craffy bilked over $10 million from grieving families, most with minimal financial literacy and many of whom were immigrants, the lawyer representing the families told Task & Purpose.
An FBI agent who worked on the case said, “heartless and despicable don’t even begin to sum up his crimes.

On Aug. 22, 1944, the Soviet Union secured an armistice with Romania for the Allies.
Level the playing field
In 1937, Romania’s king, Carol II, dissolved what became a fascist government not unlike that of Nazi Germany. In 1940, the Soviet Union co-opted control of two Romanian provinces, so the king turned to Nazi Germany to help level the playing field against the Russian bear.
On Nov. 23, 1940, Romania signed the Tripartite Pact and officially became an Axis “power” allied with Germany, Italy and Japan.

The Marine Corps is looking for commercially available technologies that can detect, identify and track a variety of uncrewed platforms and other targets that troops might need to engage.
The service is eyeing a potential acquisition of these types of capabilities for its Observation and Sensing System (OSS) program, according to a sources-sought notice released Thursday by Marine Corps Systems Command’s program executive office for land systems.