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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2241 — DD Form 2241, Standare Alternate Item Referral/Reject Notification, August 1980 — exists to Standard Alternate Item Referral/Reject Notification, and it applies across the services rather than inside one. That is what the DD prefix encodes: joint issue, single edition, every branch and defense agency working from identical paper.
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.
The set is PDF. Size: 2 pages, about 27 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 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.
Nothing costs anything here. Work in a full desktop pdf application rather than a browser preview; field behaviour in browsers is unreliable.
What the form asks for
- To.
- From.
- CIMM or WIMM.
- 4. Secondary item control center code.
- 5. Provisioning control code.
- 6. Date of request (Julian date).
- 7. Item serial number.
- 8. Action taken code.
- 9. Item name and modifier(s).
- 10. Secondary Item Control Center Submitted Item. National Stock Number.
- Part number.
- FSCM (Federal Supply Code for Manufacturers).
- 11. Proposed item. National Stock Number.
- Part number.
- FSCM.
- Item standardization code.
- 12. Source of data.
- 13. Copy of data enclosed. Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 14. Information code.
- 14. Recommended action. X first box if respond to YL/YQ offer, second box if resubmit a new SSR under a new DOR, or third box if other.
- If other, explain.
- 16. Remarks/explanation.
- 17. Name of preparer (last, first, middle initial).
- 18. Office symbol.
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.
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.
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.
Revision follows directive changes, changed data requirements and amended notice language, unannounced. Verify not stated each time rather than trusting a saved copy — the cost of the check is seconds.
Limits of this page: it distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. No legal advice, no procedural ruling, no statement about whether any submission will be accepted. Applicability, eligibility and procedure belong to not stated, to a servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2241?
- DD Form 2241, Standare Alternate Item Referral/Reject Notification, August 1980
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?