50 USC § 3054 - POW/MIA analytic capability

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identifier: "/us/usc/t50/s3054"
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title: "50 USC § 3054 - POW/MIA analytic capability"
title_number: 50
title_name: "WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE"
section_number: "3054"
section_name: "POW/MIA analytic capability"
chapter_number: 44
chapter_name: "NATIONAL SECURITY"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "COORDINATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-21"
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source_credit: "(July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title I, § 117, as added Pub. L. 106–567, title III, § 307(a), Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 2839; amended Pub. L. 108–458, title I, § 1071(a)(1)(T), Dec. 17, 2004, 118 Stat. 3689.)"
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# § 3054. POW/MIA analytic capability

**(a)** **Requirement**

**(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)** **Unaccounted for United States personnel** 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.

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**Source Credit**: (July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title I, § 117, as added Pub. L. 106–567, title III, § 307(a), Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 2839; amended Pub. L. 108–458, title I, § 1071(a)(1)(T), Dec. 17, 2004, 118 Stat. 3689.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

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

### Amendments

2004—Subsec. (a)(1).  substituted “Director of National Intelligence” for “Director of Central Intelligence”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2004 Amendment

For Determination by President that amendment by  take effect on , see Memorandum of President of the United States, , 70 F.R. 23925, set out as a note under .

Amendment by  effective not later than six months after , except as otherwise expressly provided, see , set out in an Effective Date of 2004 Amendment; Transition Provisions note under .