Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight

Mismanagement of POW/MIA Accounting

Date: August 1, 2013
Time: 10:30am
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, SD-342
Agenda:

The purpose of the hearing was to review the Defense Department’s accounting for missing personnel.  The hearing focused on the Department’s financial management and oversight of its accounting mission. The hearing also examined the roles and responsibilities of the Joint Prisoner of War/Missing in Acting Accounting Command (JPAC), the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Person Personnel Office (DPMO), the Central Identification Laboratory (CIL), and the Life Sciences Equipment Laboratory.

Member Statements

Ranking Member

Claire

McCaskill

(D -
 MO)

Senator

Kelly

Ayotte

(R -
 NH)

Witnesses

Major General

Kelly K.

McKeague

Commander

Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command

Major General

W. Montague

Winfield, Ret.

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW/Missing Personnel Affairs

Director, Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office

John A.

Goines

Chief, Life Sciences Equipment Laboratory

United States Air Force