At Kadena AB, Japan on the island of Okinawa, airmen who are not Security Forces are being trained by the 18th Security Forces Squadron to protect their units. The training comes under a program the Air Force has dubbed Selective Arming Program and calls SELARM for short. SrA. Nestor Cruz reports that the effort is in a “trial and error period” and has been undertaken by just a few units. However, Capt. Sarah Bragg, 18th SFS operations officer, expects it to be “wing-wide eventually.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week released strategies meant to focus the Pentagon’s “alphabet soup” of innovation organizations and proliferate artificial intelligence—moves that experts say could provide the structure needed to make the military’s efforts to integrate and field new technology more effective.
