Implement reforms to fix the failures behind the July 2024 assassination attempt on Trump.
Curran was on the protective detail in Butler, Pennsylvania when a gunman opened fire, and became director five months later with fixing the agency’s "operational failure" as his defining mandate. A July 2025 one-year progress report shows real, quantified movement: of 46 recommendations from congressional and independent oversight bodies, the agency had implemented 21, with 16 more in progress and 9 outside its own authority to fix. Concrete steps include a new Aviation and Airspace Security division, clearer command-post communication protocols, and discipline (10–42 day unpaid suspensions) for six agents involved in the Butler response. Less than half of the identified fixes were complete at the one-year mark — real progress on a still-open task, not a finished job.
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