
The U.S. Air Force is exploring how it will oversee its share of the F-35 Lightning II program in light of the Defense Department’s recent decision to give the military services more control over the maturing fighter jet, an Air Force official said May 15.The Air Force plans to set up an F-35 “fleet management office” and is in the “early stages” of looking at how that new entity will be organized, said Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, head of Air Force…