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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2587 — DD Form 2587, Department of Defense Acquisition Corps - Certificate of Admission, July 1998. — exists to Department of Defense Acquisition Corps - Certificate of Admission, 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: 1 pages, about 14 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.
What the form asks for
- Was admitted to the (agency) Acquisition Corps:
- On (date - 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- This individual meets the following criteria: Press space bar to mark X in first box if 1.a. is grade GS/GM-13 or above, second box if b. member of U.S. armed forces in grade of major/lieutenant commander or higher, or third box if c. certified by appropriate board as having equivalent experience.
- In addition to 1., X first box if 2.a.(1), has a baccalaureate degree from accredited institution, or second box if (2), has been certified by appropriate board as possessing potential for advancement.
- X first box if b.(1), has 24 semester hours of study from approved disciplines, second box if (2) has 24 semester hours of study in career field and 12 semester hours in approved disciplines, or third box if c., has at least 10 years experience in acquisition positions, or fourth box if d. has passed OPM certified examination(s).
- X first box if 3. has four years experience in acquisition program in DoD or comparable position in industry or government, or second box if 4., has been granted a waiver.
- The requirements waived are: (do not include 2.a.(2)).
- This certifies that (name):
- Social security number.
- 5. Certification. a. Name.
- 5. b. Title.
- c. Signature.
- 5. d. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Press this reset button to clear the data from all fields
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.
Fill top to bottom. Identification, then substance, then certification — lower fields commonly derive from the header, and completing out of order produces internal contradictions a reviewer will catch.
Nothing stays blank. N/A on an inapplicable item, because an empty box is indistinguishable from a skipped question and the form returns for it. Dates follow the format printed beside the field, not local habit — a joint form is read by clerks in several services with different date conventions, and ambiguity is expensive.
Read the Privacy Act Statement before entering identifiers, not after. Four facts are in it: authority, purpose, routine uses, consequence of declining. Its placement ahead of the data fields is deliberate.
Signature comes after everything else and must be a signature: pen, or a credentialed digital signature via Common Access Card. Typing does not qualify. Add the date at the same moment.
Review for the usual: old edition, blank required fields, illegibility on reproduction, date format, signature and date. 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.
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.
What is here is the blank form and a description of it. What is not here is legal guidance or any assurance about a particular filing — this page is not the issuing authority and does not speak for one. Those questions go to not stated, to your servicing administrative office, or to the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2587?
- DD Form 2587, Department of Defense Acquisition Corps - Certificate of Admission, July 1998.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?