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Treat DD Form 2086-2 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2086-2, FOI Consultation and Request Summary, July 08. Function: Freedom of Information (FOI) Consultation and Request Summary. 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.
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.
The set is PDF. Size: 4 pages, about 96 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
Take the fillable pdf unless you have a reason not to. Fillable means the boxes are real fields that accept typed text and retain it in the file. Printable means a flat blank — no fields, printer and pen only. The difference is not cosmetic: one produces a record that reproduces cleanly through scanning and forwarding, the other depends on penmanship.
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.
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
- 2. Type of action. Press space bar to mark X in first box if request, second box if appeal, third box if consultation.
- 3. Request category. X first box if commercial, second box if news media, third box if scientific/educational, or fourth box if other.
- 4. Action office.
- 5. Open date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 6. Close date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 7. Multi-track processing. X first box if simple, second box if complex, third box if request granted expedited processing.
- 8. Expedited processing and fee waiver adjudication. X first box if granted expedited processing, second box if denied.
- Days required to adjudicate expedited processing request.Number of calendar days required to adjudicate expedited processing request.
- X first box if granted fee waiver, second box if denied.
- Number of working days required to adjudicate fee waiver request.
- 9. Response time in day increments. X first box if 1-20 days, second box if 21-40 days, third box if 41-60 days, fourth box if 61-80 days, fifth box if 81-100 days, sixth box if 101-120 days, seventh box if 121-140 days, eighth box if 141-160 days, ninth box if 161-180 days, tenth box if 181-200 days, eleventh box if 201-300 days, twelfth box if 301-400 days, or thirteenth box if 401 or more days.
- 10. Actions taken. a. Disposition. X first box if full grant, second box if partial grant/denial, or third box if full denial based on exemption(s).
- b. Full denial based on reasons other than exemptions. X if no records.
- X if records referred.
- X if request withdrawn.
- X if fee related reason.
- X if records not reasonably described.
- X if improper request for other reasons.
- X if not agency records.
- X if duplicate request or appeal.
- X if request in litigation.
- X if other.
- X if appeal based solely on denial of request for expedited processing.
- If other, explain.
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.
Send it as not stated or local guidance specifies. Save a copy. Cross-service and cross-agency routing is normal for Department forms, and a lost original outside your own organization is harder to chase down.
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.
Do not read across from a service number. DA numbering is Army-specific under an Army proponent; DD numbering is Department-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. The sequences are unrelated, so identical digits in each identify two different documents. Read the prefix, not the digits.
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 2086-2?
- DD Form 2086-2, FOI Consultation and Request Summary, July 08
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?