What is DD Form 2139? It is a Department of Defense form titled DD Form 2139, Report of Contract Performance Outside the United States, November 2015, and its job is straightforward: Report of Contract Performance Outside the United States. That single line covers most of what people want to know before they download it.
Does it apply to your branch? Yes. The DD prefix means Department of Defense, not one service, so the same blank serves the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force and the Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction. There is no Army version and no Navy version to search for.
Who is behind it? not stated maintains the form, and not stated is the publication that requires it. Those two names answer most questions about why you are being asked to submit anything at all.
Is this the right edition? The current one is dated not stated, and the publisher carries it as not stated. Check that against whatever copy you already have before going further.
What the form asks for
- 1.a. Prime Contract Number. Use solicitation number when report is submitted with offer.
- 1.b. Purchase Order Number (if applicable).
- 2. Program Identification (e.g., F-16 aircraft, F-100 engine, A N/A P N - 59 radar, or type of services)
- 3. Name and division of prime contractor.
- 4. Address of prime contractor. Enter street, city, state, and 9 - digit zip code.
- Press space bar to mark X in first box if first-tier subcontractor, second box if second-tier.
- 6. Address of subcontractor or foreign division of prime contractor. Enter street, city, state, 9 - digit zip code, and country.
- 7. Value, in dollars, of effort performed outside the United States for this action only. Do not include amounts previously reported.
- 8. Country of origin. Enter city and country of actual producer of supplies or firm providing services.
- 9. Description of supplies or services obtained outside the United States (e.g., vertical stabilizer, F-15; Bomb Nav System, F B-111; or repair of F-16 wings).
- 10. Name of company submitting report (prime contractor for reports on first-tier subcontracts or first-tier subcontractor for reports on second-tier subcontracts).
- 5. Name of subcontractor or foreign division of prime contractor. If subcontractor, identify whether first or second tier.
- 11. Name of submitter (last, first, middle initial).
- 12. Telephone number of person submitting report. Include area code and all punctuation marks.
- 14. Date of report. Enter as four-digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 13. Signature.
Download the form
What formats exist for this form? PDF. What is the scale of it? 1 pages and approximately 16 fields.
Fillable or printable — which do you have? Click inside a box. If it accepts a cursor and typed text, the file is fillable and your entries save with it. If nothing happens, the pdf is flat, and the only way forward is printing it and writing on paper.
Does typing matter? It does. Your completed form will probably be scanned, forwarded and filed, and typed text comes through each of those steps unchanged while handwriting degrades. If pen is your only option, block capitals give the receiving clerk a fighting chance.
Where do you start? At the top. Identification first, the substance of the entry second, certification last. Why that order? Because fields lower on the page often depend on data you established in the header, and filling out of sequence produces contradictions.
What is the first thing to check? The edition date on the face of the form. Does it read not stated? If not, the copy is superseded, and a superseded DD form is a real problem: Department-level revisions replace the blank for every service at once, so an old file on a shared drive is stale everywhere, not just in your office.
Which fields are required? Treat all of them as required, marking N/A where an item genuinely does not apply. What trips people on dates? Writing them in a familiar format instead of the one the form specifies.
What is the Privacy Act Statement doing on the form? Telling you, before you supply personal identifiers, under what authority the information is collected, what it will be used for, who else may see it, and whether answering is voluntary or mandatory. Is it worth reading? It is the only part of the form written for your benefit rather than the file's.
How do you sign electronically? With a digital signature, usually CAC-based, in a reader that handles it. Will typing your name work? Not as execution — it fills a field without certifying anything. Either way, the date goes in immediately after.
What sends forms back most often? An obsolete edition, blank required boxes, handwriting illegible after scanning, dates in a format the form did not ask for, and certification without a signature or without a date.
Where do you look up an unclear entry? The form face first, not stated second. And when the two disagree? not stated controls.
What happens after you finish? It routes to the office specified in not stated or in local guidance. And your own record? Save a duplicate first; nobody regrets having one.
What if DD Form 2139 points to another form? Search the series and number. Because the DD sequence is common to every military department, no branch qualifier is needed to land on the right file.
Do DA and DD numbers ever correspond? Never. DA numbering is Army-specific, administered by an Army proponent, while DD numbering is Department-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. Identical digits in the two systems mean two unrelated documents, which is why the prefix matters more than the number.
Why do editions change at all? Three reasons, mostly: the prescribing directive gets reissued, the information collected changes, or the required notice language is amended. Are you notified when it happens? No. Which is why confirming not stated at the moment you download is worth the few seconds.
Will your completed form be accepted? That is not a question this page can answer. What you have here is a published Department of Defense document, a description of it and instructions for filling it out. Nothing on the page is legal advice, and nothing here determines what any office does with a submission. Where do the remaining questions go? To not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2139?
- DD Form 2139, Report of Contract Performance Outside the United States, November 2015
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?