DD Form 2749 occupies a particular place in Defense recordkeeping. Its title is DD Form 2749, Technical Assistance for Public Participation (TAPP) Application, October 2003, and it exists to Technical Assistance for Public Participation (TAPP) Application. What the DD prefix records is an administrative judgment made long before your copy was printed: this transaction was determined to be common to the whole Department rather than peculiar to one service, and so the documentation of it was standardized at Department level.
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.
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.
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.
Unclear entries are resolved from the printed instructions first and from not stated where the two texts diverge.
Download the form
Formats available: PDF, across 2 pages and about 31 fields.
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
- Section 1. T A P P Request source identification data. 1. Installation.
- 2. Source of T A P P request. Name of restoration advisory board, R A B, or technical review committee, T R C.
- 3. Certification of majority request.
- 4. Date of request (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 5. R A B Point of Contact. 1. Name. Last, first, middle initial.
- 5.b. Address. Street, apartment or suite number, City, State, and Zip Code.
- 5.c. Telephone number. Include area code.
- Section 2. T A P P Project description. 6. Project title.
- 7. Project type. Data interpretation, Training, etc.
- 8. Project purpose and description. State anticipated goals of project and relate to increased understanding and or participation in restoration process at the installation. Include descriptions, locations, and time tables of products or services requested.
- Statement of eligibility. Refer to eligibility criteria in S203.10 and S203.11 of T A P P rule. Note other sources that were considered for this support and state reasons why these sources are inadequate.
- 10. Additional qualifications or criteria to be considered. Additional qualifications, beyond those specified in S203.12, a provider should demonstrate to perform the project to the satisfaction of the R A B or T R C,. Attach separate statement, if necessary.
- Section 3. Installation Commander or Designated Decision Authority Approval. Press space bar to mark X if pproved.
- Mark X if not approved.
- 11. Signature.
- 12. Title.
- 13. Date. 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- Section 4. Proposed Provider Data. 14. Proposed provider. a. Name.
- 14.b. Address (street, apartment number, city, state, Zip code).
- 14.c. Telephone number (include area code).
- 15. Provider qualifications. Attach separate statement, if necessary. A statement of qualifications from the proposed technical assistance provider will be acceptable.
- 16. Alternate Proposed Provider. a. Name.
- 16.b. Address (street, apartment number, city, state, Zip code).
- 16.c. 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.
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 2749?
- DD Form 2749, Technical Assistance for Public Participation (TAPP) Application, October 2003
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?