Consider what a Department-level form is for. DD Form 2051-1 — DD Form 2051-1, Request for Information/Verification of a CAGE Code, February 2005 — was established to Request for Information/Verification of Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Code, and it was placed in the DD sequence because the underlying transaction occurs throughout the Defense establishment in substantially the same shape. Standardizing the record was cheaper and more reliable than letting six services each design their own.
That decision has consequences you will notice. Because not stated prescribes the form for the Department as a whole, and not stated maintains it on the Department's behalf, the same blank passes between the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marine Corps, the Space Force, the Coast Guard when operating under Defense jurisdiction, the defense agencies and the combatant commands without translation. A clerk in one component reads a record created in another and finds the fields where they expect them.
The edition in force is not stated, carried by the publisher as not stated, and edition discipline is stricter on a Department form than most people expect, precisely because supersession happens everywhere at once. There is no interval during which one service still works from the previous layout while another has moved on.
Work down the page in the printed order, and understand why the order exists. The identifying block establishes whose record this is and under what circumstances it arises. The body of the form then answers questions that are only meaningful once that context is fixed. The signature block comes last because a certification signed before the entries are complete certifies nothing.
Verify the printed edition against not stated first. Field structure shifts between editions, and the office that receives your record is reading the current one. That office may sit outside your service, which removes even the informal accommodation you might expect from a colleague who used the old version last month.
Where a specific field is genuinely unclear, the instructions printed on the form come first and not stated governs where the two do not agree.
Download the form
The set published here is PDF, covering 1 pages with roughly 17 fields.
Xfdl appears in the set for reasons of institutional inertia rather than preference. It is the IBM Lotus Forms format, once the Department's electronic forms standard and deployed widely enough that it outlived the decision to move on. IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or an equivalent client opens it; a pdf application will not.
All of it downloads without charge. Where care is needed is in the reader you choose. A fillable pdf depends on field properties that desktop applications honour and browser previews frequently ignore, so work locally rather than inside a browser window.
What the form asks for
- 1. Please review the above address and annotate any changes. If unchanged, press space bar to mark X in this box.
- 3. If any of the facilities have been merged to form another division, indicate CAGE codes involved.
- 5. Source development profile data. a. Size of business. Enter A if under 500 employees, B if 501 to 750 employees, C if 701 to 1000 employees, D if 1001 to 1500 employees, or E if over 1500 employees.
- 5.b. Primary Business Category. Enter F if construction firm, G if service company, J if manufacturer, K if regular dealer/distributor, or L if sales office.
- 5.c. Small Disadvantaged Business Status. Enter H if approved by Small Business Administration for Section 8a program, I if other small disadvantaged business concern, or X if not small disadvantaged business concern.
- 5.d. Women - owned business. Enter Y if yes, N if no.
- 6. North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code. The NAICS code is a government index used to identify business activity and indicates the function (manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, or service) and the line of business in which the company is engaged. If your business has multiple NAICS codes, indicate primary NAICS code first, next important, etc. NAICS Codes:
- 7. Telephone number. Enter the telephone number of the office designated to answer queries from the Federal Government with regard to contracting and/or procurement actions.
- 8. Remarks.
- 9. Commercial and Government Entity Code (Federal Supply Code Manufacturer/Non-manufacturer)..
- For Defense Logistics Service Center use only.
- 10. Person authorized to sign. a. Typed or printed name: last, first, middle initial.
- 10.b. Signature.
- 10.c. Date signed: four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- d. Title.
- 10.e. Telephone number. Include area code.
Route the executed form as not stated or local guidance directs, and retain a duplicate first. Cross-component routing is ordinary for DD forms, which is precisely why a personal copy earns its keep: the receiving office may belong to an organization you have no standing to query about a missing document.
Cross-referenced documents are found by series and number, with nothing further required. That the DD sequence is unified across the Department means a cited number identifies one form and no other, which is the practical payoff of centralizing the numbering in the first place.
It helps to see the DA and DD sequences as what they are: separate registries with separate custodians. One serves a single service under a service proponent, the other serves the Department under not stated or an equivalent office, and neither was ever indexed against the other. A number that appears in both systems points to two unrelated documents, which is why reading the prefix comes before reading the digits.
Understanding why editions change explains why checking them is not optional. Revision follows directive reissue, changes in what data is required, and amendments to mandatory notice text — decisions made at Department level and communicated through publication rather than notification. The file you saved does not update itself, so the edition date at download is what you rely on.
What you have here is the document and a description of it, which is a different thing from guidance. This page is not an organ of the Department, gives no legal or procedural advice, and makes no representation about the outcome of any filing; the offices that administer the requirement are the only ones positioned to answer that. Applicability, eligibility and procedural questions belong to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2051-1?
- DD Form 2051-1, Request for Information/Verification of a CAGE Code, February 2005
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?