Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s National Intrepid Center of Excellence seeks to provide a “streamlined evaluative pathway” to treat the traumatic brain injuries of military personnel and their families, DoD News reported Friday

In an interview with DoD writer Shannon Collins, NICoE Deputy Director Louis French said NICoE’s clinical and research operations aim to put the experience of TBI patients into the “larger picture of healthcare in the military.”

“People come in sometimes very hopeless, and to be able to turn that around and to let people see what it’s like to recover and what it’s like to think about the next 70 years of their lives, what they’re going to do, it’s very gratifying,” French added.

NICoE looks to offer a range of treatment options in one location which include a four-week intensive outpatient treatment program, one-week assessment track, ongoing outpatient care services, inpatient consultation as well as individual diagnostic and evaluative options, Collins wrote.

The U.S. Navy and Spain’s maritime forces have conducted a series of cooperative air defense test exercises with the Aegis Weapon System that ended in several live missile firing events.

The USS Arleigh Burke guided-missile destroyer and Spanish frigate Cristobol Colon were used for the training that set out ships and an E-2 Hawkeye aircraft to share a common tactical picture through the Aegis AN/SPY-1 radar and Tactical Data Links, the Navy said Friday.

Arleigh Burke also faced a number of subsonic anti-ship cruise missile targets with the Aegis Integrated Air and Missile Defense and Area Defense.

“While our combat systems suites are slightly different, the way we operate and execute missions are quite similar,” said Cmdr. Tom Myers, Arleigh Burke commanding officer.

“My crew and I are grateful for the opportunity to deepen our operational relationship with our Spanish allies and enhance interoperability initiatives between our two navies.”

This was the first interoperability test on the latest Aegis Baseline 9.C1 with a foreign ship and combat systems ship qualification trial with Spain.

The Aegis Combat System is the sea-based element of the U.S’s Ballistic Missile Defense System and is designed to simultaneously engage against land targets, submarines and surface ships and defend against aircraft and missiles.

The U.S. Army Security Assistance Command has transported additional AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder radar systems to the Ukrainian military as part of a $200 million program to help Ukraine counter rocket, mortar and artillery threats.

The Fiscal Year 2016 Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative is a Defense Department program that aims to help build up Ukraine’s security forces in response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, the Army said Wednesday.

“USASAC’s July delivery is in support of the FY ’16 Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, part of a much larger package that includes everything from communication and medical equipment to night vision devices, personal protection equipment, and military training,” said Jason Evans, USASAC’s country program manager for Ukraine.

Evans said the new delivery of Q-36 systems augments Ukraine’s current inventory of Q-48 counter-mortar radar systems.

USASAC’s Fort-Bragg-based subordinate U.S. Army Security Assistance Training Management Organization will provide training to the Q-36 radar military teams, with support from the Fire Center of Excellence and Tobyhanna Army Depot.

The Defense Department has updated its guidance for DoD military and civilian personnel who implement the law of war in support of military operations.

DoD said Friday the update on the 2015 Law of War manual provided to military commanders, legal practitioners and other personnel covers international law principles that establish measures to protect journalists.

“[DoD] lawyers heard concerns brought forward by media organizations and engaged in a productive, thoughtful dialogue with journalists that helped us improve the manual and communicate more clearly the department’s support for the protection of journalists under the law of war,” said Jennifer O’Connor, DoD general counsel.

“The department’s mission is to defend the very freedoms that journalists exercise.”

DoD noted it will continue to collaborate with the public regarding the manual and update it in the future as needed.

The updated version of the manual can be found here.