Daniel Ray Coats (born May 16, 1943) is an American politician and diplomat who is currently serving as the 5th Director of National Intelligence overall and the first under the Trump Administration. As a member of the Republican Party, Coats previously served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1989 to 1999, and again from 2011 to 2017, as the United States Ambassador to Germany from 2001 until 2005, and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 until 1989. Coats was a member of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence while serving in the U.S. Senate.