What is DD Form 2554-1? It is a Department of Defense form titled DD Form 2554-1, TDP Option Selection Worksheet, Product Drawings and Associated Lists, December 1989., and its job is straightforward: Product Drawings and Associated Lists. That single line covers most of what people want to know before they download it.
Is there a version specific to your service? No. A DD number is issued at Department level, which is the whole point of the prefix — every military department and defense agency works from one identical document. Looking for a branch variant wastes time you do not have.
Who decides this form exists? not stated owns it; not stated directs its use. If someone told you to file this, the authority traces back to those.
Which edition should you have? not stated, listed as not stated. A copy dated otherwise is a copy worth replacing.
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).
- b. X if reproductions.
- c. X if digital data.
- Originals. Identify specification, type, grade and class, etc.
- Reproductions. Identify specification, type, grade and class, etc., and quantity of each,
- 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.
Download the form
Which files are here? These: PDF. How much work is involved? 1 pages, about 32 entry fields.
Do you pay for these? No. Free download, every format. What should you avoid? Filling the form inside a browser tab; the fields frequently do not save.
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.
Why does the edition matter so much here? Because DD forms are revised centrally. When the Department reissues one, it reissues it for all branches simultaneously, and the field layout can shift. Compare the printed date against not stated before you type anything.
What about a box that does not apply to you? Enter N/A rather than leaving it empty. An empty field reads as an oversight and sends the form back; N/A reads as an answer. What about dates? Use the format printed beside the field, not the one you write by habit.
Why read the Privacy Act Statement? Because it sits ahead of the personal data fields deliberately. It names the collection authority, the principal purpose, the routine uses of your data and the consequence of declining. Reading it afterward tells you nothing you can still act on.
Is a typed name enough? No. The signature block takes an actual signature: pen on paper, or a digital signature applied with your Common Access Card where the receiving system accepts one. Add the date beside it before you close the file.
Which mistakes are worth a final check? Superseded edition, gaps in mandatory fields, unreadable writing on a scanned copy, non-conforming date format, unsigned or undated certification.
Is the form its own instruction manual? Partly. The rest sits in not stated, which is also the authority where the two texts conflict.
Who receives it? The office not stated designates, subject to whatever local instruction your organization adds. What do you keep? A copy, made before the form leaves your hands.
How do you find a form referenced inside this one? By its number alone. The DD sequence runs across the entire Department, so a number identifies exactly one document regardless of which service cited it.
Why do some instructions cite both a DA and a DD form? Because the procedure touches both systems, not because the forms are related. Service forms answer to a service proponent; DD forms answer to not stated or another Department office. The sequences were never aligned.
Should you archive this file and reuse it next year? Better not. Forms are revised as directives are reissued, as data requirements shift and as statutory notice text is updated, and none of that reaches you directly. Download fresh, check the edition date.
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 2554-1?
- DD Form 2554-1, TDP Option Selection Worksheet, Product 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?