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Treat DD Form 2800 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2800, Suggestion Evaluation, July 1999. Function: Suggestion Evaluation. 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.
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.
The set is PDF. Size: 1 pages, about 48 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.
What the form asks for
- 1. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 2. To (use complete address).
- 3. Suggestion title.
- 4. Suggestion number.
- 5. Action taken or recommended. Press space bar to mark X in first box if a. not recommended for adoption, second box if b. already under consideration, third box if c. already in use, fourth box if d. recommend adoption, but approval not within jurisdiction of this office, or fifth box if e. approved for adoption.
- e. If approved, X first box if totally or second box if partially and explain in Item 9.
- 5.e.(3) Date of implementation (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 5.e.(4) Method of adoption.
- 5.e.(5) Mandatory or optional use.
- 6. Intangible benefits (non-measurable) Suggestion Improves. Mark X if quality.
- 6. Mark X if efficiency.
- 6. Mark X if timeliness.
- 6. Mark X if daily operations.
- 6. Mark X if service.
- 6. Mark X if other (explain in item 9).
- 7. Tangible benefits. a. Factors. (1) Labor. Man hours involved, Former Method.
- 7.a.(1) Labor. Cost per man-hour, Former Method.
- 7.a.(1) Labor. Total Cost, Former Method.
- 7.a.(2) Material. Number of Units, Former Method.
- 7.a.(2) Material. Cost per Unit, Former Method.
- 7.a.(2) Material. Total Cost, Former Method.
- 7.a.(3) Total Cost of Labor and Material, Former Method.
- 7.a.(1) Labor. Man hours involved, New Method.
- 7.a.(1) Labor. Cost per man-hour, New Method.
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.
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.
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.
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 2800?
- DD Form 2800, Suggestion Evaluation, July 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?