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DD Form 2554-8 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2554-8, TDP Option Selection Worksheet, Program Peculiar Specifications, December 1989, used to Program Peculiar Specifications. 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.
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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Available: PDF, across 1 pages, roughly 31 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
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.
What the form asks for
- A. Contract number.
- B. Exhibit/attachment number.
- C. CLIN.
- D. CDRL data item number.
- 1. Item, process or material.
- 2. Specification type per mil-std-490. Press space bar to mark X in one block only of type A, B (1)-(5), C(1)(a) - (4), D, or E
- 3. Form. X first box if form 1a, second box if form 1b, third box if form 2, or fourth box if form 3.
- 4. Associated documents per mil-std-490. a. Document. (1) X if specification change notice.
- (2) X if engineering change proposals.
- (3) X if specification revision pages.
- b. CDRL data item number.
- (4) X if changes to general specification for ships of the U.S. Navy.
- b. CDRL data item number.
- b. CDRL data item number.
- (5) X if software top level design document.
- b. CDRL data item number.
- (6) X if software detailed design document.
- b. CDRL data item number.
- (7) X if interface design document.
- b. CDRL data item number.
- (8) X if database design document.
- b. CDRL data item number.
- b. CDRL data item number.
- 5. Deliverable product. a. X if Originals (masters).
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.
For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
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.
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.
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 2554-8?
- DD Form 2554-8, TDP Option Selection Worksheet, Program Peculiar Specifications, December 1989
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?