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DD Form 1918 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 1918, Federal Wage System - Establishment Information, July 2009, used to Federal Wage System - Establishment Information. 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.
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.
Formats: PDF. Length 1 pages, approximately 79 entries. Pick on the basis of how you will complete it.
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 needs IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible client — a pdf reader will not open it. The format was the Defense standard for electronic forms across the Department for years, which is why it persists in DD distribution long after most users moved to pdf.
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. Establishment name and address. Include apartment or suite number and 9 digit zip code.
- 2. Wage area.
- 3. Date of contact: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 4. Telephone number, include area code and extension.
- 5. Name and title of persons interviewed.
- 6. Product or service of establishment. a. Major industry.
- 6. b. Specific products or services.
- 7. Area code.
- 8. Establishment code.
- 10. Establishment weight.
- 11. Total number of employees in establishment.
- 12. Total number of blue collar employees.
- 13. Overtime pay provisions: daily rate.
- Daily hours.
- 13. Weekly rate.
- 13. Weekly hours.
- 13. Sunday rate.
- 13. Holiday rate.
- 9. North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code.
- 14. Number of hours in normal work week.
- 15. Month general wage adjustments are normally effective.
- 16. Contract obtained? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no, third box if rate sheet.
- 17. Non par code.
- 18. General wage adjustments. a. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day), line 1.
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.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
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.
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 1918?
- DD Form 1918, Federal Wage System - Establishment Information, July 2009
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?