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DD Form 441 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 441, DoD Security Agreement, 20120501 draft, used to Department of Defense Security Agreement. 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.
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.
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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Formats: PDF. Length 2 pages, approximately 23 entries. Pick on the basis of how you will complete it.
Default to fillable pdf, print only when you must. The fillable file stores what you type; the printable file is a blank picture. A Department form often travels further than a service form — scanned, emailed, forwarded to an agency that never saw the original — and typed text is what survives that.
What the form asks for
- This Department of Defense Security Agreement, entered into this day (enter day).
- Of (enter month).
- , (enter year).
- By and between the Government and: (enter name of contractor).
- (1) A (enter type of business entity), organized and existing under the laws
- Of the state of: (enter state).
- 2. A partnership consisting of: (enter partners).
- 3. An individual trading as: (enter name).
- With its principal office and place of business at (enter street, city, state and zip code).
- Signature of authorized government representative.
- Typed name of authorized government representative.
- Typed name of authorized government agency.
- Typed name of contractor entering agreement.
- Signature of authorized contractor representative.
- Typed name of authorized contractor representative.
- Title of authorized contractor representative.
- First line of contractor address.
- Typed name of witness.
- Date witness signs.
- Signature of witness.
- Second line of contractor address.
- By executing this form, the contractor representative certifies that he or she is the (enter title) of the business entity identified above.
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
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.
Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.
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.
Related forms are found by number alone. The DD sequence is one unified Department-wide series, so a cited number resolves to exactly one document with no branch qualifier needed.
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.
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 441?
- DD Form 441, DoD Security Agreement, 20120501 draft
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?