Joe Tomczak

Joe Tomczak is an active-duty special operations pilot serving on Capitol Hill as the Deputy Chief of the Department of the Air Force’s House Liaison Office. He leads a team of Air Force and Space Force officers, enlisted members, and civilians to advance the department’s priorities with members of Congress as well as personal and professional staffs.

Prior to his current role on Capitol Hill, Joe served in the Pentagon as the team chief of the Secretary of the Air Force’s Executive Action Group and was formerly the senior executive officer to the three-star Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs. Joe’s operational experience includes five combat deployments and more than 320 missions providing close air support for special operations forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. In 2019, he commanded an expeditionary special operations squadron during the final AC-130U gunship deployment of the war in Afghanistan.

Joe graduated with a B.S. in political science from the U.S. Air Force Academy, which included an exchange semester at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. A distinguished graduate of the Air Command and Staff College and a graduate of the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Joe also holds a Master of International Policy and Practice from the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.