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DA Form 7799 handles one job: request for approval of information management requirement. The official title is REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENT. Download it below, fill it in, sign it, send it where your directive says. The edition on this page is 02/01/2019, status ACTIVE, running 1 page(s) with about 118 fields to complete. This edition is superseded — pull the newer one unless your record was already executed on this version.
Authority sits in two places. CIO owns the form, AR 25-98 says when it is raised and where it goes. Routine cases need neither read in full — the page itself carries the sequence. The entries are completed by their subject or by unit administrative staff working from what that person supplies.
Pick by how you will enter data: PDF on offer. Typing means fillable pdf, where the boxes accept keystrokes and hold them on save. Handwriting means printable pdf, a flat page image sent straight to a printer. Neither version changes what appears on the page.
A standalone reader is the safe choice for fillable work. Browser viewers vary in whether entered data survives the session, and there is no warning when it does not; a one-field save test settles it in seconds.
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What the form asks for
- ASSIGNEDRCS1
- Concur1
- Concur2
- ContentArea1
- DATEAPPROVED1
- DATEOFREQUEST
- DateOfficialSigned
- Email1
- Email2
- ExistingRCSNumber1
- Form1
- FormNumberNoTitle1
- FrequencyOfRequirement1
- GRADERANK1
- Justification1
- Line1
- Line2
- Line3
- Line4
- Line5
- Line6
- Line7
- Line8
- Line9
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.
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.
Signature comes after every other entry — ink or an approved electronic means, and without it the document is a draft. Where reviewing, approving or witnessing signatures are called for, take them in printed block order, each dated on the day applied. Before release, one pass from the top. The defects worth hunting are always the same four: mandatory fields left empty, identification digits transposed, dates with day and month reversed, and stale data surviving in a copy reused in place of a blank form.
Read the Privacy Act statement at the point it appears. Authority, purpose, routine uses, mandatory or voluntary — four facts, and they govern what you are about to enter. A completed copy holds personal data and takes the handling rules that attach to it.
Routing follows AR 25-98 and nothing else — a named office, the unit administrative channel, or the individual's file, according to why the form was raised. Copy it before it leaves. Retention is fixed by the records schedule for the series, which local practice does not shorten or extend.
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.
The files are copies of published Department of the Army forms. This site has no official connection, no authority to issue anything, and no basis for saying whether an office will accept a given submission. None of the text is legal advice. Real questions — entry, requirement, eligibility — belong with CIO or the administrative office servicing your unit.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 7799?
- REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENT
- Which edition is current?
- 02/01/2019
- Who is responsible for this form?
- CIO
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, PDF