Official U.S. Government website for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). Our mission is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense whose mission is to recover and identify unaccounted Department of Defense personnel listed as prisoners of war (POW) or missing in action (MIA) from designated past conflicts, from countries around the world.

In 1971, during the Vietnam War, Mary Hoff, member of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia and wife of missing in action (MIA) Lt. Commander Michael Hoff U.S.N., proposed the creation of a symbol for American prisoners of war (POW) and those who are MIA.

More than 80,000 American service personnel are missing from previous conflicts and 38,000 are estimated to be recoverable. The Defense POW/MIA Agency remains relentless in its mission to...

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is a Defense Agency within the Department of Defense (DoD) and receives annual funding through the DoD, Defense-Wide (DW), Operation and Maintenance (O&M), and Procurement (PROC) Appropriations. The DPAA budget for Fiscal Year 2023 is $150 Million. WHAT DEFENSE AGENCIES SUPPORT PERSONNEL ACCOUNTING?

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's mission is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel from past conflicts to their families and the nation. Within this mission, we search for missing personnel from World War II (WWII), the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, the Gulf Wars, and other recent conflicts.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Fact Sheets. Learn more about what we do.

Sep 2, 2021 · The DPAA website contains Information about its current efforts and publicly available data on identification and recovery, as well as those who remain unaccounted for. The Department of Defense...

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The POW/MIA (Prisoner of War/Missing in Action) program seeks the fullest accounting of those still listed as POW/MIA in Southeast Asia and anywhere else, regardless of the conflict from which they went missing or were captured.