§234 Pow/mia Activities: Display of Budget Information

Summary

The Secretary of Defense must send Congress, as part of the annual defense budget papers, a single budget report (in both classified and unclassified forms) that covers all Department of Defense POW/MIA accounting and recovery programs. For each organization, the report must say what percent of its originally requested needs are funded, show actual or estimated spending for the current and prior fiscal year, state the budgeted amount, explain any funding shortfalls compared with requests, and give a five-year budget estimate. Covered organizations include the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO), the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL), the Air Force Life Sciences Equipment Laboratory (LSEL), and any other DoD unit with the mission to account for missing or captured service members. “Defense budget materials” means the papers the Secretary sends to Congress, and “budget” means the President’s budget under section 1105(a) of title 31.