# Support for Missing and Exploited Children Investigations

**Agency:** Homeland Security  
**Account:** Operations and Support  
**Source document:** United States Secret Service · p. 5  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/homeland-security/support-for-missing-and-exploited-children-investigations  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 6.0 |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | 6.0 |
| FY2027 | request | 6.0 |

The prior-year column is a CR annualized figure, not an enacted appropriation.


## Homeland Security discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $91.40B, FY2026 $88.60B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Support for Missing and Exploited Children Investigations - PPA Level II Field Operations - PPA Support for Missing and Exploited Children Investigations - PPA II Forensic Support: U.S. Secret Service provides forensic support to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) under the provisions of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 and the PROTECT Act of 2003. Field Operations - PPA Support for Computer Forensics Training - PPA II


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Homeland Security › United States Secret Service › Operations and Support › Field Operations


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*