Maj Gen Michele Edmondson
Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff, Warfighter Communications and Cyber SystemsMaj. Gen. Michele C. Edmondson is the Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Warfighter Communications and Cyber Systems, Headquarters Air Force, the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. In this role, 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.
Maj. Gen. Edmondson entered the Air Force in 1993 as a graduate of the Air Force ROTC program at the University of Florida. She has served in a variety of space operations, acquisition, staff, and policy assignments associated with space-based missile warning; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; and communication systems at the unit, Air Staff, Joint Staff, and national levels as well as the Executive Office of the President. Maj. Gen. Edmondson has commanded a space operations squadron, a space and missile training group, Air Force basic military training, a technical training wing, the Air Force cadet wing as Commandant of Cadets at the United States Air Force Academy, as well as Second Air Force.
MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS
Distinguished Service Medal
Defense Superior Service Medal with oak leaf cluster
Legion of Merit with three oak leaf clusters
Defense Meritorious Service Medal
Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters
Air Force Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster
Joint Meritorious Unit Award with oak leaf cluster
Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with oak leaf cluster
National Defense Service Medal with bronze star device