{
  "id": "USC-56",
  "category": "Missing-personnel recovery partnerships",
  "capability": "Partner, grant and procure to account for missing personnel",
  "summary": "Use recovery-focused public-private partnerships, grants, cooperative agreements, property support and gifts; separately assist and procure goods/services from foreign nations for missing-U.S.-personnel accounting.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 1501a",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partII-chap76-sec1501a.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks."
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 408",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap20-sec408.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks."
    },
    {
      "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 1041",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Enacted December 18, 2025; operative amendment read."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense; Secretary of State concurrence or approval where specified",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Missing-personnel accounting mission sponsor (illustrative routing lead)"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense; Secretary of State concurrence or approval where specified"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Designated Defense Agency agreements, grants and recovery offices (illustrative; delegation not verified)"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Department of State"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. § 1501a statutory holder and conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partII-chap76-sec1501a.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. § 408 statutory holder and conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap20-sec408.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 1041 statutory holder and conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "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."
  ],
  "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."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Available mission funds; gifts of money go to the DoD General Gift Fund under §1501a."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.",
  "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.",
  "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.",
  "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification. P.L. 119-60 §1041 and current OLRC §408 amendment notes expressly verified: adds foreign procurement and raises ceiling to $15 million.",
  "family": "Security cooperation, assistance and education",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05",
  "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05",
  "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified.",
  "usc_review_notes": [
    "Added in the October 5 statutory coverage review. The cited legal mechanism and its conditions were examined; a current implementing program, intake, funding balance and individual delegation were not verified."
  ],
  "mechanisms": [
    "Contracts & purchases",
    "Grants & cooperative agreements"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "allies-partners"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "comptrollers",
      "role": "resource_owner",
      "label": "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense; Secretary of State concurrence or approval where specified"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "defense-agencies",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "Designated Defense Agency agreements, grants and recovery offices (illustrative; delegation not verified)"
    }
  ],
  "family_slug": "security-cooperation-assistance-and-education",
  "instrument_groups": [
    "Contracts & purchases",
    "Grants & cooperative agreements"
  ],
  "executor_route": {
    "id": "execution-usc-56",
    "name": "Designated Defense Agency agreements, grants and recovery offices (illustrative; delegation not verified)",
    "label": "Designated Defense Agency agreements, grants and recovery offices (illustrative; delegation not verified)",
    "url": "/offices/execution/usc-56/",
    "basis": "Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office."
  },
  "program_context": [],
  "program_research": null,
  "checks": [
    {
      "key": "legal",
      "label": "Legal basis",
      "state": "Sources linked",
      "detail": "Legal sources and instrument limits are recorded."
    },
    {
      "key": "eligibility",
      "label": "Requirements",
      "state": "Gates recorded",
      "detail": "Read the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action."
    },
    {
      "key": "funds",
      "label": "Public funding",
      "state": "Rules recorded",
      "detail": "Available mission funds; gifts of money go to the DoD General Gift Fund under §1501a. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-56/#funding"
    },
    {
      "key": "delegation",
      "label": "Assigned roles",
      "state": "Roles recorded",
      "detail": "Public sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-56/#roles"
    },
    {
      "key": "execution",
      "label": "Engagement",
      "state": "Program unverified",
      "detail": "Added in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.",
      "url": "/sources/usc/"
    }
  ],
  "hard_limit": "§408 annual assistance ceiling is $15 million, subject to notified waiver—not the obsolete $5 million baseline."
}