Every entry in the Defense records system exists because some decision needed a documented basis, and DD Form 2554-2 is one of those instruments: DD Form 2554-2, TDP Option Selection Worksheet - Conceptual Design Drawings and Associated Lists, December 1989, created to Conceptual Design Drawings and Associated Lists. 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.
This is why the arrangement matters to you rather than only to the archivists. not stated governs the form throughout the Department, with not stated as the responsible office, so the record you create is legible outside your own component. Joint assignments, agency details and cross-service transactions all depend on that: the paperwork does not have to be reconstructed each time it crosses a boundary.
Current edition: not stated, status not stated. Understand why that date is worth attention here. When the Department reissues a form, the replacement takes effect across every component simultaneously, so an older copy is not merely locally out of date — it is out of date in every office that might receive it.
The form is laid out top to bottom in a sequence that reflects how the record will be read, not merely how it was drawn. Identification comes first because everything below it is understood in relation to a named person, unit or transaction; substantive entries follow; certification closes the document because certification attests to what precedes it. Filling out of order tends to produce internal inconsistencies — an entry that made sense before the header was settled and does not afterward.
Before the first entry, compare the date printed on the form face with not stated. This is not bureaucratic fussiness. Editions change field numbering, and a receiving office working from the current layout may look for information where your copy does not put it. On a Department form the exposure is wider than usual: your record may be reviewed by an office in another service entirely, one with no reason to remember what the previous edition looked like.
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 1 pages with roughly 28 fields.
Every format is free, as published government documents are. A note on tools, though — the interactive field layer that makes a fillable pdf useful is precisely the part browser viewers handle least reliably. Save the file, open it in a full pdf reader, and the fields behave as the form's designer intended.
What the form asks for
- A. Contract number.
- B. Exhibit/attachment number.
- C. CLIN.
- D. CDRL data item number.
- 1. Deliverable product. a. Press space bar to mark X if Originals (drawing masters).
- Originals. Identify specification, type, grade and class, etc.
- b. X if reproductions.
- Reproductions. Identify specification, type, grade and class, etc., and quantity of each,
- c. X if digital data.
- Digital data. Identify specification, exchange media, etc.
- 2. CAGE code and document numbers. X first box if contractor, second box if government.
- If government: Use CAGE code.
- (2) Use document numbers.
- (3) If none, to be assigned by:
- 3. Drawing formats and drawing forms. X first box if contractor formats, supplied by contractor, second box if government formats supplied by contractor, or third box if government formats supplied by government.
- If government formats supplied by contractor: samples suppiied by:
- If forms supplied as Government Furnished Material, suppiied by:
- 4. Types and quantity of drawings selection. X first box if contractor selects, second box if government selects.
- 5. Associated lists. X if parts lists.
- If parts lists: X first box if integral, second box if separate, or third box if contractor's option.
- b. X if data lists.
- If data lists, X first box if not required, second box if required.
- If required, specify levels of assembly.
- c. X if index lists.
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.
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.
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 2554-2?
- DD Form 2554-2, TDP Option Selection Worksheet - Conceptual Design Drawings and Associated Lists, December 1989
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?