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DA Form 5605-2-R handles one job: life cycle cost analysis summary (lra). The official title is LIFE CYCLE COST ANALYSIS SUMMARY (LRA). Download it below, fill it in, sign it, send it where your directive says. The edition on this page is 12/01/1986, status ACTIVE, running 1 page(s) with about 200 fields to complete.
USACE is the proponent, AR 5-802-1 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.
PDF, XFDL are available and the decision takes one second. Type your entries: fillable pdf. Write them: printable pdf. The published layout is common to both, so the format governs your method and nothing more.
Save the download and open it in a dedicated reader. That single step prevents the common failure: an in-browser viewer accepts your typing and discards it at tab close. Confirm with one field and one save cycle before committing the whole form. The xfdl copy needs the IBM Lotus Forms Viewer. That format runs in Army systems and nothing else reads it.
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What the form asks for
- ALTER_NO
- BASIS
- ContentArea1
- DESCRIPT
- DESCRIPT_1
- DESCRIPT_2
- DESCRIPT_3
- DESCRIPT_4
- DESCRIPT_5
- DISCIPL
- DISCIPL_1
- DISCIPL_2
- DISCIPL_3
- DISCIPL_4
- DISCIPL_5
- DISCIPL_6
- ENERGY
- ENERGY_1
- ENERGY_2
- ENERGY_3
- ENERGY_4
- ENERGY_5
- FEATURE
- INITIAL
The heading entries carry more weight than the body. Name spelled as in official records, identification number, organisation, date prepared. Retrieval runs on those values, so a transposed digit or a casual spelling costs someone a file search. Fill them before anything else.
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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.
Related forms are found by series and number. DA series documents under the same proponent or the same prescribing directive are commonly required as a set, and any form named on the face of this one goes forward with it. Assemble continuations, covers and transmittals before submitting, not after the query comes back.
A stored file goes stale silently. The proponent revises, a new edition date is published, and your copy says nothing about it — so compare the printed date against the edition in force before typing into it again. Completed submissions on an earlier edition are not reopened.
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Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 5605-2-R?
- LIFE CYCLE COST ANALYSIS SUMMARY (LRA)
- Which edition is current?
- 12/01/1986
- Who is responsible for this form?
- USACE
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL, PDF
Publisher notes
- 41-ITEM ALSO PRODUCED IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA,