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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 1540 — DD Form 1540, Registration for Scientific and Technical Information Services, November 2007 — exists to Scientific and Technical Information Services, Registration for, 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.
not stated is the prescribing publication and not stated the office responsible for the document. Deadlines belong to local implementing guidance, not to either of those, so a submission date is a question for the receiving office.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
Available: PDF, across 2 pages, roughly 65 fields.
Nothing costs anything here. Work in a full desktop pdf application rather than a browser preview; field behaviour in browsers is unreliable.
What the form asks for
- Section 1 - General Information. (All applicants must complete Section 1.) 1. Organization name.
- 2. Suborganization name.
- 3.a. Classified or Business mailing address.
- 4. Attention. a. Name: last, first, middle initial.
- 4.c. Position/title.
- 4.d. Office symbol.
- 6. Fax numbers (include area code). a. Commercial.
- 6.b. D S N.
- 7. E-mail address.
- 8.a. Prime contract number (or other appropriate number) (contractors only).
- 9. Current or former DTIC user? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- If yes, enter DTIC user code.
- 10. Militarily Critical Technical Data Agreement Certification Number (contractors only).
- 8.b. Expiration date - four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 11. CAGE code.
- 12. DUNS number.
- 13. Type of access requested. a. Unclassified. X first box if Unclassified/Unlimited (public release) or second box if Unclassified/Limited (controlled distribution).
- b. Classified: X first box if confidential, second box if secret.
- c. Special accesses: X if Restricted Data.
- X if CNWDI.
- 10.b. Expiration date - four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- X if NATO confidential.
- X if NATO unclassified.
- X if NATO secret.
Start by matching the printed date to not stated. Old blanks accumulate in shared folders for years. Because the Department reissues to all services in one action, nobody is still accepting the previous layout by local custom.
For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
Route it where not stated or local procedure directs, and keep a copy first. On a Department form the receiving office is frequently outside your own chain — another service, a defense agency, a joint command — which makes recovering a lost original slower than it would be internally.
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.
Do not read across from a service number. DA numbering is Army-specific under an Army proponent; DD numbering is Department-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. The sequences are unrelated, so identical digits in each identify two different documents. Read the prefix, not the digits.
Revision follows directive changes, changed data requirements and amended notice language, unannounced. Verify not stated each time rather than trusting a saved copy — the cost of the check is seconds.
This page publishes a Defense document and explains its contents. It does not advise, does not rule on applicability, and determines nothing about how a completed form will be treated. Direct such questions to not stated, to the servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1540?
- DD Form 1540, Registration for Scientific and Technical Information Services, November 2007
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?