10 U.S.C. § 234 — POW/MIA activities: display of budget information

(a) Submission with annual budget justification documents. The Secretary of Defense must submit to Congress, as part of the defense budget materials for a fiscal year, a consolidated budget justification display — in both classified and unclassified form — covering every program and activity of Department of Defense POW/MIA accounting and recovery organizations. (b) Requirements for budget display. For each such organization, the display for a fiscal year must include: (1) what percentage of the organization's originally requested funding the budget actually requests; (2) a summary of actual or estimated spending by that organization for the fiscal year the budget is submitted in, and for the year before it; (3) the amount budgeted for that organization; (4) a detailed explanation of any shortfall between the requirement shown under (1) and the amount shown under (3); and (5) the organization's budget estimate for the five fiscal years after the year the budget covers. (c) Department of Defense POW/MIA accounting and recovery organizations. This term covers 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's Life Sciences Equipment Laboratory (LSEL), and any other element of the Department of Defense that the Secretary designates as working on accounting for or recovering service members who are missing in action, prisoners of war, or otherwise unaccounted for, plus any successor to these organizations. (d) Other definitions. "Defense budget materials," for a fiscal year, means the materials the Secretary of Defense submits to Congress supporting that year's budget. "Budget," for a fiscal year, means the budget for that year that the President submits to Congress under section 1105(a) of title 31.