Assistance program
Past Conflict Accounting - Vietnam
$7.6 Million committed in FY2021–FY2026
- Agency
- Washington Headquarters Services (WHS), Dept of Defense
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 12.015
- What it does
- The Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of State, is authorized to carry out a cooperative program with the Ministry of Defense of Vietnam to assist in accounting for Vietnamese personnel missing in action. (b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the cooperative program under subsection (a) is to carry out the following activities: (1) Collection, digitization, and sharing of archival information. (2) Building the capacity of Vietnam to conduct archival research, investigations, and excavations. (3) Improving DNA analysis capacity. (4) Increasing veteran-to-veteran exchanges. (5) Other support activities the Secretary of Defense considers necessary and appropriate.
- Who benefits
- Beneficiaries of an assistance award can be any private entity. This initiative will support USG efforts to assist Vietnam account for Vietnamese Missing in Action (VMIAs) by drawing public and key stakeholder attention to the importance of this work and by providing platforms for bilateral dialogue.
- Who applies
- Institutions of higher education with the required experience.
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments