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DD Form 2589 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2589, Acquisition Position Restricted to Member of the Armed Forces, July 1998, used to Acquisition Position Restricted to Member of the Armed Forces. 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.
Current edition is not stated, carried as not stated. Check that against any copy you already hold before doing anything else — Department-level revisions land everywhere simultaneously, so a stale file is stale across the whole Department.
Available: PDF, across 1 pages, roughly 19 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
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.
What the form asks for
- 1. Reporting D. O. D. component.
- 2. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 3. Command. a. Title.
- b. Location.
- c. Unit identification code (UIC).
- 4. Position title.
- 5. Position number.
- 6. Military grade.
- 7. A. O. C. or A. F. S. C. or N. O. B. C. or O. C. C. series.
- 8. Status. Press space bar to mark X in first box if filled, second box if vacant.
- 9. Position's military essentiality reason code.
- 10. Determination reason. X first box if required by law, second box if essential for performance, or third box if other compelling reason.
- 11. Discussion,
- 12. Approved by (name).
- Signature.
- 14. Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition) recommendation.
- 13. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 15. Date (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.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
Send it as not stated or local guidance specifies. Save a copy. Cross-service and cross-agency routing is normal for Department forms, and a lost original outside your own organization is harder to chase down.
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.
Prefix before number. A DA citation and a DD citation in the same instruction point at separate systems — one Army, administered by an Army proponent, one Department-wide under not stated — and there is no correspondence between them at any number.
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 2589?
- DD Form 2589, Acquisition Position Restricted to Member of the Armed Forces, 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?