Partner, grant and procure to account for missing personnel
- Objective
- Work with allies and partners
- Family / instrument
- Security cooperation, assistance and education · Missing-personnel recovery partnerships
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of Defense; Secretary of State concurrence or approval where specified
- Executor · routing lead
- Designated Defense Agency agreements, grants and recovery offices (illustrative; delegation not verified)
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Private assistance must support the designated missing-personnel Defense Agency; foreign partnerships need State concurrence.
§408 foreign assistance needs specific State approval; annual reporting and terrorism-related recipient prohibitions apply.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Available mission funds; gifts of money go to the DoD General Gift Fund under §1501a.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
§408 annual assistance ceiling is $15 million, subject to notified waiver—not the obsolete $5 million baseline.
- §1501a gifts cannot compromise integrity or its appearance; sole-source grants/agreements and no-cost property support remain mission-limited.
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementProgram unverified
Implementation caution: Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified.
Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.
Actor sources
- 10 U.S.C. § 1501a statutory holder and conditions
- 10 U.S.C. § 408 statutory holder and conditions
- Pub. L. 119-60, § 1041 statutory holder and conditions
Independent public-source guide; not an official U.S. government website. Record reviewed 2026-10-05. Read the full record for currentness, coordination and all source notes.