Dana Brown, Former FAMS Director and USSS Assistant Director, Dies at 78

Excerpt: Dana Brown, a decorated Marine combat veteran who dedicated more than four decades to protecting the American people through distinguished careers in law enforcement, passed away on January 17, 2026, in McKinney, Texas. He was 78. Dana Brown served for 25 years in the United States Secret Service – protecting Presidents Ford and Reagan and rising to Assistant Director – before transforming the Federal Air Marshal Service as its Director, rebuilding morale and readying the agency for real-world crises, including the 2006 Lebanon evacuation and the transatlantic bomb plot.