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Title 50 — War and National DefenseRelease 119-73

§3054 POW/MIA analytic capability

Title 50 › Chapter CHAPTER 44— - NATIONAL SECURITY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - COORDINATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY › § 3054

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Director of National Intelligence must create and keep a special analytic unit inside the intelligence community, working with the Secretary of Defense, to handle intelligence about U.S. personnel who have been unaccounted for after December 31, 1990. That unit is called the "POW/MIA analytic capability of the intelligence community." "Unaccounted for United States personnel" means (1) any missing person as defined in 10 U.S.C. 1513(1), and (2) any U.S. national who was killed while working for the United States and whose remains have not been brought back.

Full Legal Text

Title 50, §3054

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(a)(1)The Director of National Intelligence shall, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, establish and maintain in the intelligence community an analytic capability with responsibility for intelligence in support of the activities of the United States relating to individuals who, after December 31, 1990, are unaccounted for United States personnel.
(2)The analytic capability maintained under paragraph (1) shall be known as the “POW/MIA analytic capability of the intelligence community”.
(b)In this section, the term “unaccounted for United States personnel” means the following:
(1)Any missing person (as that term is defined in section 1513(1) of title 10).
(2)Any United States national who was killed while engaged in activities on behalf of the United States and whose remains have not been repatriated to the United States.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 404l of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Amendments

2004—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 108–458 substituted “Director of National Intelligence” for “Director of Central Intelligence”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2004 AmendmentFor Determination by President that amendment by Pub. L. 108–458 take effect on Apr. 21, 2005, see Memorandum of President of the United States, Apr. 21, 2005, 70 F.R. 23925, set out as a note under section 3001 of this title. Amendment by Pub. L. 108–458 effective not later than six months after Dec. 17, 2004, except as otherwise expressly provided, see section 1097(a) of Pub. L. 108–458, set out in an

Effective Date

of 2004 Amendment; Transition Provisions note under section 3001 of this title.

Reference

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Citation

50 U.S.C. § 3054

Title 50 — War and National Defense

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73