Defense Management: Assessment Should be Done to Clarify Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office Personnel and Funding Needs

Abstract

In response to congressional concerns about the Department of Defense's (DOD) performance in accounting for missing personnel, DOD established the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Office in July 1993. This office is now called the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO). DPMO's original mission was to provide centralized management of prisoner of war/missing in action affairs throughout DOD, and the office initially focused on missing service personnel from the Vietnam War and, to a lesser extent, incidents during the Cold War. Since its inception, Congress and DOD have expanded DPMO's mission and responsibilities.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 25, 2005
Accession Number
AD1166450

Entities

People

  • Ann Borseth
  • Cheryl Weissman
  • John Van Schaik
  • Jonathan Clark
  • Maria-alaina Rambus
  • Paul N. Newton
  • R. K. Wild
  • Sally Newman
  • Sharon L. Pickup

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Air Force Personnel
  • Civilian Personnel
  • Cold War
  • Congress
  • Contractors
  • Department Of Defense
  • Directives
  • Employment
  • Government (Foreign)
  • Governments
  • Instructions
  • Law
  • Military Personnel
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Prisoners
  • Prisoners Of War
  • Training
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Vietnam War

Readers

  • Criminal Law
  • Personnel Management and Statistics in the Military and Department of Defense
  • Strategic Security Studies