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DD Form 1861 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 1861, Contract Facilities Capital Cost of Money, August 2004, used to Contract Facilities Capital Cost of Money. 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.
Current edition is not stated, carried as not stated. Check that against any copy you already hold before doing anything else — Department-level revisions land everywhere simultaneously, so a stale file is stale across the whole Department.
Available: PDF, across 1 pages, roughly 64 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
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.
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
- 1. Contractor name.
- 2. Contractor address.
- 3. Business Unit.
- 4. Request for Proposal or Contract Procurement Instrument Identification Number.
- 5. Performance period.
- 6.a. Pool, line 1 of 12.
- 6.b., Allocation base. Line 1.
- 6.c., Facilities Capital Cost of Money. (1) Factor, line 1.
- 6.c.(2). Amount, line 1.
- 6.a. Pool, line 2.
- 6.b., Allocation base. Line 2.
- 6.c. (1) Factor, line 2.
- 6.c.(2). Amount, line 2.
- 6.a. Pool, line 3.
- 6.b., Allocation base. Line 3.
- 6.c. (1) Factor, line 3.
- 6.c.(2). Amount, line 3.
- 6.a. Pool, line 4.
- 6.b., Allocation base. Line 4.
- 6.c. (1) Factor, line 4.
- 6.c.(2). Amount, line 4.
- 6.a. Pool, line 5.
- 6.b., Allocation base. Line 5.
- 6.c. (1) Factor, line 5.
Edition check comes first, ahead of any entry. Compare the printed date to not stated and replace anything older. Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
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.
Look up cross-referenced forms by series and number. DD numbering is unified across the Department, which removes the usual step of identifying which service issued the thing.
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.
Limits of this page: it distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. No legal advice, no procedural ruling, no statement about whether any submission will be accepted. Applicability, eligibility and procedure belong to not stated, to a servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1861?
- DD Form 1861, Contract Facilities Capital Cost of Money, August 2004
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?