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DD Form 1423-2 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 1423-2, Contract Data Requirements List (2 data items), August 1996, used to Contract Data Requirements List (2 Data Items). The DD prefix is the operative fact. It means one blank serves every military department — Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction — plus the defense agencies and combatant commands. No branch variant exists.
Authority: not stated prescribes it, not stated maintains it. Those two names settle most disputes about why the form is being asked for. Local commands add timing on top; the requirement itself comes from above them.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
The set is PDF. Size: 2 pages, about 168 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
Default to fillable pdf, print only when you must. The fillable file stores what you type; the printable file is a blank picture. A Department form often travels further than a service form — scanned, emailed, forwarded to an agency that never saw the original — and typed text is what survives that.
Xfdl is a legacy Department format, IBM Lotus Forms, requiring the matching viewer. Its survival in DD distribution reflects how widely it was fielded across the Department, not any advantage over pdf today.
All formats are free. One operational note: save the file locally and open it in a desktop reader. Browser-embedded viewers drop field properties and lose typed data without warning.
What the form asks for
- A. Contract Line Item Number.
- B. Exhibit.
- C. CATEGORY. Press space bar to mark X if TDP - Technical Data Package.
- C. Mark X if TM - Technical Manual.
- C. Other category.
- D. System/item.
- E. Contract/ PR Number.
- F. Contractor.
- 1. Data Item Number (Item 1 of 2).
- 2. Title of Data Item.
- 3. Subtitle.
- 4. Authority.
- 5. Contract Reference.
- 6. Requiring Office.
- 7. DD 250 Requirement.
- 8. Approval code.
- 9. Distribution Statement Required.
- 10. Frequency.
- 11. As Of Date.
- 12. Date of first submission.
- 13. Date of subsequent submission.
- 14. Distribution. a. Addressee, line 1 of 3.
- 14.b. Number of Copies. Draft.
- 14.b. Number of Final copies: regular.
Verify the edition before the first keystroke. The date on the form face should read not stated. If it does not, discard the file. Field numbering shifts between editions, and on a DD form the new layout reaches every receiving office in every service at once — there is no lag during which the old version is still normal somewhere.
Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.
Send it as not stated or local guidance specifies. Save a copy. Cross-service and cross-agency routing is normal for Department forms, and a lost original outside your own organization is harder to chase down.
A number is a complete address in the DD series. Because the sequence is Department-level and not duplicated per service, there is nothing further to specify.
Prefix before number. A DA citation and a DD citation in the same instruction point at separate systems — one Army, administered by an Army proponent, one Department-wide under not stated — and there is no correspondence between them at any number.
Three drivers of revision: directive reissue, altered collection requirements, updated statutory notice text. No notification accompanies any of them, so download fresh and confirm not stated rather than reusing an archived file.
What is here is the blank form and a description of it. What is not here is legal guidance or any assurance about a particular filing — this page is not the issuing authority and does not speak for one. Those questions go to not stated, to your servicing administrative office, or to the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1423-2?
- DD Form 1423-2, Contract Data Requirements List (2 data items), August 1996
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?