Every entry in the Defense records system exists because some decision needed a documented basis, and DD Form 2292 is one of those instruments: DD Form 2292, Request for Appointment or Renewal of Appointment of Expert or Consultant, September 2011, created to Request for Appointment or Renewal of Appointment of Expert or Consultant. The reason it carries a DD number rather than a service designation is structural — the Department maintains a single body of forms for matters that arise identically in every service, so that a record created in one component remains intelligible in another.
The practical effect of Department-level issue is interoperability. not stated establishes the requirement across the Defense enterprise; not stated keeps the document current for all of it. No service maintains its own variant, which means a completed record travels between components — service to agency, agency to joint command — and arrives in a format the receiving office already knows how to read.
You are looking for edition not stated, listed as not stated. Department-wide supersession is a single event rather than a rollout, which is what distinguishes edition currency on a DD form from the same question on a service publication: nobody anywhere is still accepting the previous version out of habit.
The sequence printed on the form is the sequence in which a reviewer will read it, and the two should agree. Header data frames every entry below it; the substantive fields depend on that frame; the certification stands at the end because its whole function is to vouch for what came before. Entries made out of sequence commonly contradict entries made earlier.
Check the edition date before you type anything, against not stated. Old blanks accumulate in shared drives for years, and the cost of one is not obvious until a reviewer cannot find a field. Because DD forms are revised centrally and replaced across the Department in a single action, there is no component still tolerating the old layout as a local practice.
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.
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The set published here is PDF, covering 3 pages with roughly 30 fields. More than one format survives because the Department serves users under very different conditions, from a desk with current software to a location where a printer is the only reliable output.
Two states of the same page circulate, and the reason is worth knowing. In the fillable pdf, the boxes are real fields holding real data; in the printable pdf, the boxes are drawings. Where a record will cross components — as Department records regularly do — the typed version is the safer artifact. Each scan, each forwarding, each reproduction costs handwriting a little legibility, and the office that finally files the record is rarely the office that received it first.
What the form asks for
- Press space bar to mark X in first box if appointment, second box if renewal.
- Request date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day). Date form is completed.
- Part 1 - Requesting Authority. 1. Name of proposed appointee (last, first, middle initial and suffix if applicable).
- 2. Office, committee or subcommittee to which appointed. Spell out completely. Use block 7 if more space is needed.
- 3. Work schedule (full time, part time, intermittent) and stimated number of days to be worked during appointment year. Cannot exceed 130. Must be completed if new appointment.
- 4. Proposed compensation per hour or day or indicate if without compensation (WOC). Must be completed if new appointment.
- 5. Proposed entry on duty date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 6. Complete for renewal appointment of consultant or expert. a. Number days worked in prior appointment year. Attach DD Form 2525.
- 6. b. Work schedule (F/T, P/T, or INT) and number of days to be worked. Cannot exceed 130 days. Must be completed for renewal appointment.
- 6. c. Proposed rate of pay, or WOC.
- 7. Official duty station.
- 8. Position sensitivity. X first box if special sensitive, second if critical sensitive, third if noncritical sensitive, fourth if nonsensitive.
- 9. Duties of consultant or expert.
- 10. Describe nominee's background and experience as it relates to the requirements of this appointment. Attach completed resume.
- 11.i. Signature of authorizing official. Must be USD or designee.
- j. Title of authorizing official.
- 12.a. Security authority signature.
- b. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 13.a. Budget and finance authority signature.
- b. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 14.a. Standards of conduct authority signature.
- b. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 15.a. Human Resources authority signature.
- b. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
The completed form goes to the office named in not stated or in local implementing procedure, and it is worth keeping a copy before it goes. On a Department form the destination is frequently outside your own chain — another service, a defense agency, a joint staff — and recovering a document that has crossed an organizational boundary is a slower business than retrieving one from a file down the hall.
Forms referenced inside this one are located by number alone, and that simplicity is a direct product of Department-level numbering. Because the DD sequence is maintained centrally and not duplicated by service, a number is a complete address: one number, one document, throughout the Defense establishment.
Procedures that touch both Department and service processes will cite forms from both sequences, and the coincidence of numbers between them is exactly that — coincidence. An Army proponent maintains the DA series for the Army; not stated or another Department office maintains the DD series for the whole Department. Two independent registries, two independent numbering runs, no correspondence at any value.
A form is downstream of the policy that requires it, and revision usually starts there: a directive is reissued, a collection requirement is altered, notice language is updated by statute. The form is republished as a consequence. Since none of that reaches individual users, an archived copy quietly becomes wrong, and verifying not stated each time you download is the whole remedy.
The role of this page is narrow and worth stating plainly. It makes a published Defense form available and explains its structure. It does not advise, does not interpret policy for your circumstances, and cannot indicate how any office will treat a completed copy — those judgments rest with the authorities that own the process. Direct such questions to not stated, to the administrative office that services you, or to the authority named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2292?
- DD Form 2292, Request for Appointment or Renewal of Appointment of Expert or Consultant, September 2011
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?