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Treat DD Form 2051 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2051, Request for Assignment of a Commercial and Government Entity Code, October 2011. Function: Request for Assignment of a Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Code. Because the number carries DD rather than a service prefix, the same edition covers all military departments and the defense agencies at once. Nobody issues a Navy copy or an Air Force copy.
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.
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 34 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
Fillable pdf is the default choice. Its boxes hold typed entries inside the document; the printable release is a static image of the same page with no interactive layer. Since DD forms routinely cross between services and agencies before they are filed, typed entries matter more here than on a form that stays inside one office.
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
- Section A - to be completed by initiator. 1. Requesting government agency/activity. a. Name.
- 1.b. Street address.
- 1.b. City.
- 1.b. State.
- 1.b. Zip code.
- 2. Type code requested. Press space bar to mark first box if type A, second box if type F.
- 3. Exception codes. a. C A O.
- 3.b. A D P.
- 4. Initiator. a. Typed name: last, first, middle initial.
- 4b. Office symbol.
- 4.c. Signature.
- 4.d. Telephone number (include area code).
- Section B - to be completed by firm to be coded. 5. Firm. a. Name (include branch of, division of, etc.)
- 5.b. Street address.
- 5.b. City.
- 5.b. State.
- 5.b. Zip code.
- 5.c. CAGE code (if previously assigned).
- 6. If firm previously operated under other name(s) or other address(es) specify the previous name(s) and/or address(es). Use separate sheet of paper if necessary.
- 7. Parent company and affiliated firms. Mark X in first box if none, second box if currently affiliated with other firms, and third box if previously affiliated with other firms. List names and addresses of such firms on a separate sheet of paper.
- 8. Primary business category. Mark X in first box if manufacturer, second box if dealer/distributor, third box if construction firm, fourth box if service company, fifth box if sales office, and sixth box if other.
- 8.f. If other, specify.
- 9. Small disadvantaged business status. Mark X in first box if approved by Small Business Administration for Section 8a program, second box if other small disadvantaged business concern, third box if not small disadvantaged business concern.
- 10. Number of employees.
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.
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.
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 2051?
- DD Form 2051, Request for Assignment of a Commercial and Government Entity Code, October 2011
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?