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DD Form 2543 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2543, Government Furnished Material (GFM) Status Report, September 1999, used to Government Furnished Material (GFM) Status Report. 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.
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: 1 pages, about 104 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.
Skip xfdl unless the viewer is already installed. It is the IBM Lotus Forms format, adopted Department-wide for electronic forms and still present in the set for that reason; ordinary pdf software reports it as unreadable.
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
- Report control symbol
- 1. Date prepared (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 2. Reporting period. a. From (4 digit year, 1 digit quarter).
- b. To. (4 digit year, 1 digit quarter).
- 3 3. Management control activity (MCA).
- 4. Contract number/contract basic line item number, line 2.
- 5. Consignee.
- 6. NSN/Part number.
- 7. Document number (MILSTRIP requisition number).
- 8. Unit of issue.
- 9. Quantity shipped.
- 10. Date shipped.
- 11. Unit price.
- 12. Extended dollar value.
- Part I - Shipments of GFM to contractors. 4. Contract number/contract basic line item number, line 1.
- 5. Consignee.
- 6. NSN/Part number.
- 7. Document number (MILSTRIP requisition number).
- 8. Unit of issue.
- 9. Quantity shipped.
- 10. Date shipped (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 11. Unit price.
- 12. Extended dollar value.
- 4. Contract number/contract basic line item number, line 3.
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.
Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.
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.
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.
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 2543?
- DD Form 2543, Government Furnished Material (GFM) Status Report, September 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?