Brig. Gen. Joy M. Kaczor ​serves as the Acting Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Warfighter Communications and Cyber Systems, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force, the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. In this capacity, she serves as the Air Force's senior leader responsible for guidance, oversight and advocacy of Air Force Warfighter Communications and Cyber Systems implementation. She integrates comprehensive planning, strategic resourcing and force development, readiness and management activities to deliver critical freedom of action in cyberspace, advancing joint warfighting missions by ensuring the service maintains technological superiority and operational resilience across all domains of conflict.

Brig. Gen. Kaczor was commissioned through Officer Training School in January 1999. She has commanded at multiple levels, including at the squadron and wing level. Brig. Gen. Kaczor served in numerous joint positions including Current Operations Division Chief for U.S. Cyber Command, Computer Network Operations Branch Chief and Information Operations Planner for Special Operations Command Pacific and Chief of Protocol for U.S. Central Command forward.

She completed Senior Developmental Education at the National Defense University, Eisenhower School, where her paper on creating a cybersecurity culture earned the National Defense University President’s Strategic Vision Research and Writing Award. Her staff assignments include time as an action officer and executive officer to the Secretary of the Air Force Chief Information Officer (A6), Computer Network Operations and Information Operations Planner for Special Operations Command, Pacific and as the Current Operations Division Chief for U.S. Cyber Command.