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DA Form 4502-R handles one job: worksheet for calculating cost of management information requirements/products (lra). The official title is WORKSHEET FOR CALCULATING COST OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION REQUIREMENT/PRODUCTS. Download it below, fill it in, sign it, send it where your directive says. The edition on this page is December 1982, status not stated, running 1 page(s) with about 152 fields to complete.
CIO/G-6 is the proponent, AR 335-15 the prescribing authority. Read the directive only if something about your situation departs from the standard case. Otherwise the form is filled by the individual it describes, or by the records clerk keeping the file, and reviewed through the printed signature blocks.
The formats are PDF, XFDL, and the choice comes down to keyboard or pen. Fillable pdf for typing — live fields, tab order, saved entries. Printable pdf for handwriting — same page, no interactive objects, print it blank. Content is identical; only entry method differs.
Use a full pdf reader, not the browser viewer. Browser viewers display fields they cannot always save, and the loss shows up only when you reopen the file — type one entry, save, reopen, verify, then fill the rest. The xfdl file is IBM Lotus Forms, used inside Army systems, and opens in the Lotus Forms Viewer alone — no pdf reader, no word processor.
No charge, no account, no email address. The file is the published document, distributed unaltered.
What the form asks for
- ADP
- ADP_1
- ADP_2
- ADP_3
- ADP_4
- ContentArea1
- DATA
- DATA_1
- DATA_2
- DATA_3
- DATA_A
- DATA_A_1
- DATA_A_2
- DATA_A_3
- DATA_B
- DATA_B_1
- DATA_B_2
- DATA_B_3
- DATA_C
- DATA_C_1
- DATA_C_2
- DATA_C_3
- DATA_D
- DATA_D_1
Header first, always. Name as your official records spell it, identification number, unit, date of preparation — these four index the finished record, and an error in them hides the document from anyone searching for it later. The substantive blocks can wait thirty seconds.
Tabbing beats clicking for coverage. The order was set at build time and tracks the page layout, so following it leaves no gaps. Boxes and buttons are clicked; where options are exclusive, one selection cancels another by design. Watch field width on long entries: one-line fields have no wrap, and what runs past the edge disappears in print though the screen still shows it. Move that text to remarks or a continuation. Never leave an inapplicable field empty — enter the nil mark, because a reviewer cannot distinguish a skipped question from a considered answer.
Sign last. An unsigned form is a draft whatever else is on it, and additional signatures — reviewer, approver, witness — follow printed block order with each signer dating the day they sign, not the day of preparation. Four faults account for most returns: a blank mandatory field, transposed digits in an identification number, day and month reversed in a date, and leftover entries in a working copy reused instead of a fresh blank. Read the form once from the top before releasing it.
Privacy Act statement first, personal entries second. The notice covers who is authorised to collect, why, who else routinely sees it, and whether you must answer. After completion the file carries personal data and is stored and sent under the corresponding safeguards.
The prescribing directive names the destination; office custom does not. Depending on the case that means a specific office, the unit administrative channel, or the personal record. Keep a copy first, because the original does not come back. Retention runs on the applicable records schedule.
Companion documents come from the same series and number scheme. Within the DA series, a shared proponent or a shared directive usually means shared use, and a form cited on the face of another accompanies it. Gather the whole package first — continuation sheets, cover sheets, transmittals.
Check the edition date before reusing a saved copy. Revisions come from the proponent without notice to you, and the printed date is the only version marker on the page. Already-submitted records under a superseded edition stand as filed; the change does not run backwards.
These are reproductions of published Department of the Army documents, offered for download. The site is independent, connected to nothing official, and issues no forms of its own. Nothing here is legal advice and no statement is made about acceptance by any office. Questions about an entry, a requirement or eligibility go to CIO/G-6 or your servicing administrative office.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 4502-R?
- WORKSHEET FOR CALCULATING COST OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION REQUIREMENT/PRODUCTS
- Which edition is current?
- December 1982
- Who is responsible for this form?
- CIO/G-6
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL