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Treat DD Form 2463 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2463, California Bearing Ratio (CBR) Analysis, December 1999. Function: California Bearing Ratio (CBR) Analysis. 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.
not stated is the prescribing publication and not stated the office responsible for the document. Deadlines belong to local implementing guidance, not to either of those, so a submission date is a question for the receiving office.
Edition not stated, status not stated. That comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
The set is PDF. Size: 5 pages, about 200 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
Default to fillable pdf, print only when you must. The fillable file stores what you type; the printable file is a blank picture. A Department form often travels further than a service form — scanned, emailed, forwarded to an agency that never saw the original — and typed text is what survives that.
What the form asks for
- 1. Project.
- 2. Date.
- 3. Soil classification.
- 4. Location of soil.
- 5. Group number.
- Data summary. Mold number, line 1.
- Blows per layer.
- Moisture content, W (percent).
- Dry density.
- Corrected CBR (percent).
- Swell (percent).
- Mold number, line 2.
- Blows per layer.
- Moisture content, W (percent).
- Dry density.
- Corrected CBR (percent).
- Swell (percent).
- Mold number, line 3.
- Blows per layer.
- Moisture content, W (percent).
- Dry density.
- Corrected CBR (percent).
- Swell (percent).
- Mold number, line 4.
Verify the edition before the first keystroke. The date on the form face should read not stated. If it does not, discard the file. Field numbering shifts between editions, and on a DD form the new layout reaches every receiving office in every service at once — there is no lag during which the old version is still normal somewhere.
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.
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.
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 2463?
- DD Form 2463, California Bearing Ratio (CBR) Analysis, December 1999
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?