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DD Form 2042 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2042, Work Measurement Time Study Worksheet (Snapback), December 1976, used to Work Measurement Time Study Worksheet (Snapback). 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.
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 200 entries.
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What the form asks for
- 1. Drawing number.
- 2. Date.
- 3. Reference/file/study number.
- 4. Operation.
- 5. Organization work center.
- 6. Work unit.
- 7. Observer.
- 8. Name of operator/number.
- 9. Machine number/stock number.
- 10. Material.
- 11. Weight.
- 12. Quantity.
- 13. Stop time.
- 14. Start time.
- 15. Elapsed time (stop time minus start time).
- 16. Type of timing device.
- 17.a. Number, line 1.
- b. Element description.
- c. Readings. Time, column 1.
- Time, column 2.
- Time, column 3.
- Time, column 4.
- Time, column 5.
- Time, column 6.
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 Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.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.
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.
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 2042?
- DD Form 2042, Work Measurement Time Study Worksheet (Snapback), December 1976
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?