WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force has scrapped its plan to create an independent command expected to drive modernization developments. “This restructuring will accelerate the delivery of combat power, ...

Air Force Sec. Troy Meink, right, shown during a June budget hearing. (Eric Dietrich/Air Force) The Air Force has scrapped its outgoing chief of staff’s plan to create an independent command focused ...

The Air Force is dropping large portions of the previous administration's "reoptimization" plan, but keeping other aspects such as an emphasis on training airmen to do multiple jobs, or being ...

At Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, a test bed for a new kind of air force, Major Trent McMullen is a fighter pilot learning to fly alongside the XQ-58, a drone piloted by artificial intelligence.