---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 234"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "234"
heading: "POW/MIA activities: display of budget information"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/234"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part I — Organization and General Military Powers"
  - "Chapter 9 — Defense Budget Matters"
---

# §234. POW/MIA activities: display of budget information

- (a) **Submission With Annual Budget Justification Documents.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall submit to Congress, as a part of the defense budget materials for a fiscal year, a consolidated budget justification display, in classified and unclassified form, that covers all [programs](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) and activities of [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense POW/MIA accounting and recovery organizations.
- (b) **Requirements for Budget Display.—** The budget display under [subsection (a)](#a) for a fiscal year shall include for each such organization the following:
  - (1) A statement of what percentage of the requirements originally requested by the organization in the budget review process that the budget requests funds for.
  - (2) A summary of actual or estimated expenditures by that organization for the fiscal year during which the budget is submitted and for the fiscal year preceding that year.
  - (3) The amount in the budget for that organization.
  - (4) A detailed explanation of the shortfalls, if any, in the funding of any requirement shown pursuant to [paragraph (1)](#b-1), when compared to the amount shown pursuant to [paragraph (3)](#b-3).
  - (5) The budget estimate for that organization for the five fiscal years after the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted.
- (c) **Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting and Recovery Organizations.—** In this section, the term “[Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense POW/MIA accounting and recovery organization” means any of the following (and any successor organization):
  - (1) The Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO).
  - (2) The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC).
  - (3) The [Armed Forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL).
  - (4) The Life Sciences Equipment Laboratory (LSEL) of the Air Force.
  - (5) Any other element of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense the mission of which (as designated by the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense) involves the accounting for and recovery of members of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) who are missing in action or prisoners of war or who are unaccounted for.
- (d) **Other Definitions.—** In this section:
  - (1) The term “defense budget materials”, with respect to a fiscal year, means the materials submitted to Congress by the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense in support of the budget for that fiscal year.
  - (2) The term “budget”, with respect to a fiscal year, means the budget for that fiscal year that is submitted to Congress by the President under [section 1105(a) of title 31](/usc/31/1105.md?p=a).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 109–364, div. A, title V, § 563(a), Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2221.)