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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 1450 — DD Form 1450, DoD Space Requirements Data, Part I - Summary, April 1966 — exists to Space Requirements Data, DoD - Part I - Summary, and it applies across the services rather than inside one. That is what the DD prefix encodes: joint issue, single edition, every branch and defense agency working from identical paper.
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.
Edition not stated, status not stated. That comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Available: PDF, across 2 pages, roughly 63 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
Fillable pdf is the default choice. Its boxes hold typed entries inside the document; the printable release is a static image of the same page with no interactive layer. Since DD forms routinely cross between services and agencies before they are filed, typed entries matter more here than on a form that stays inside one office.
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
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- 1. Personnel. d. Enter Total In Private And Open Office Type Space
- 1. Personnel. d. Enter E 1-7, GS 1-6
- 1. Personnel. d. Enter E-8 And 9, WD, 0 1 and 2, GS 1-1 Supervisory
- 1. Personnel. d. Enter E-8 And 9, WD, 0 1 and 2, GS 1-1 NonSupervisory
- 1. Personnel. d. O 3 And 4, GS 12-13 Supervisory
- 1. Personnel. d. O 3 And 4, GS 12-13 NonSupervisory
- 1. Personnel. d. O 5 And 6, GS 14-15 Supervisory
- 1. Personnel. d. O 5 And 6, GS 14-15 NonSupervisory
- 1. Personnel. d. O 7 and 8 GS 16-18, P L
- 1. Personnel. d. Total in Administrative Support Space
- 1. Personnel. d. Total in Storage And Special Type Space
- 1. Personnel. d. Total Personnel
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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.
Submit to the office named in not stated or in local instruction; retain a duplicate before it leaves. Joint routing often sends a DD form across organizational boundaries, and tracing one afterward is not a same-day matter.
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.
Where a procedure cites both a service form and a DD form, the two are unconnected. Service numbering answers to a service proponent, DD numbering to not stated or another Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Matching numbers mean nothing whatever.
Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the data collected changes, or when notice language is amended. None of that reaches you. Checking not stated at download is the entire defence, and it is cheaper than repeating a submission.
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 1450?
- DD Form 1450, DoD Space Requirements Data, Part I - Summary, April 1966
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?