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DD Form 2024 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2024, DoD Security Classification Guide Data Elements, July 1986, used to DoD Security Classification Guide Data Elements. 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.
The set is PDF. Size: 2 pages, about 25 fields.
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.
Free download, every format. Do not fill the form in a browser tab — browser pdf viewers handle interactive fields inconsistently and discard entries on close.
What the form asks for
- 1. Reason for submission. Press space bar to mark X in first box if new guide, second box if revision, third box if reissuance, fourth box if biennial review, fifth box if cancellation, or sixth box if correction.
- Report Control Symbol.
- 2. Promulgating document. (Include type of document, activity, symbol or serial number and date. Do not include the subject of the document. If no promulgating document, state "none." Do not exceed 46 characters.).
- 3. Classification Guide Title. (Include the full title (if unclassified) and any short title. Do not exceed 134 characters.)
- 4. Classification guide date (2 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day. Do not exceed 6 characters).
- 5. Classification guide originator. (Activity which issued guide. Do not exceed 25 characters.)
- 6. Available through DTIC. X first box if B, second box if C, third box if D, fourth box if E, fifth box if F, sixth box if X, or seventh box if No.
- 7. Biennial review date (2 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day. Do not exceed 6 characters.)
- 8. Number of revisions and date of latest. (Show number of revisions first, then the date of latest revision as a 2 digit year followed by 2 digit month and 2 digit day. If no revisions have been made, so state. A reissued guide would have no revisions. Do not exceed 8 characters.)
- 9.a. Subject Matter Index Terms, line 1 (do not exceed 34 characters per line).
- 9.b. Subject Matter Index Terms.
- 9.c. Subject Matter Index Terms.
- 10. Classification of guide document. X first box if Top secret, second box if secret, third box if confidential, fourth box if unclassified, or fifth box if special access required (including if guide itself is classified).
- 11. Index source number. Enter existing number if guide is listed in Index.
- 12. Highest classification prescribed by guide: X first box if top secret, second box if secret, or third box if confidential.
- 13. The guide prescribes classification of information controlled within a Special Access Program. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 14. Remarks.
- 15. Originator. a. Typed name (last, first, middle initial).
- 15.b. Title.
- 15.e. Date signed.
- 15.c. Office/agency department.
- 15.d. Signature.
- 16. Action Officer. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 16.b. Telephone number (DSN if outside DC metropolitan area).
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.
For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
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.
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.
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 2024?
- DD Form 2024, DoD Security Classification Guide Data Elements, July 1986
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?