The Air Force has scrapped its outgoing chief of staff’s plan to create an independent command focused on developing the service’s future requirements into new systems.

The functions of the provisional Independent Capabilities Command will be folded into a restructured version of Air Force Futures by next April, the department said Wednesday.

“This restructuring will accelerate the delivery of combat power, improve efficiency and shorten the decision timeline,” Air Force Sec. Troy Meink said in a statement.

Last February, former Air Force Sec. Frank Kendall and Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin announced plans to create the ICC as a key pillar of a vast “reoptimization” of the service to better prepare it for a potential conflict with China.

Allvin wanted the ICC to centralize futu

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