§234 POW/MIA activities: display of budget information

Summary

The Secretary of Defense must send Congress, as part of the defense budget for each fiscal year, a single combined budget justification report in both classified and unclassified form that covers all Department of Defense POW/MIA accounting and recovery programs. For each organization, the report must show: the percentage of its originally requested needs that the budget funds; a spending summary for the fiscal year when the budget is sent and for the year before; the dollar amount in the budget for that organization; an explanation of any funding shortfalls compared to requests; and budget estimates for the five fiscal years after the budget year. Department of Defense POW/MIA accounting and recovery organizations named: Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO); Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC); Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL); the Air Force Life Sciences Equipment Laboratory (LSEL); and any other DoD element the Secretary designates with that mission. "Defense budget materials" means the materials the Secretary of Defense submits to Congress to support the budget. "Budget" means the budget the President submits to Congress under 31 U.S.C. 1105(a).