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DD Form 2048 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2048, Work Measurement Plan and Schedule, September 1976, used to Work Measurement Plan and Schedule. 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.
Requirement traces to not stated; the form belongs to not stated. Everything about schedule sits below that in local instruction, which is where to ask if a date matters.
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 2 pages, roughly 200 fields.
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What the form asks for
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- First fiscal year.
- Second fiscal year.
- a. Cost accounting code, line 1.
- b. Organization or function.
- c. Authorized personnel.
- d. Type of standard.
- e. Potential coverage.
- 1. Name and title (typed).
- 2. Signature.
- 3. Date prepared.
- o. Areas, line 1.
- p. Planned coverage.
- Method of approach. Engineered: q. Standard time data.
- r. Predetermined data.
- s. Time study.
- t. Work sampling.
- Non-engineered: u. Technical estimate.
- v. Statistical.
- w. Manhour and staffing pattern.
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 Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2048?
- DD Form 2048, Work Measurement Plan and Schedule, September 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?