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DD Form 2554-4 — DD Form2554-4, TDP Option Selection Worksheet - Commercial Drawings and Associated Lists, December 1989

Commercial Drawings and Associated Lists

So what is DD Form 2554-4? The short answer: a Defense Department document, officially DD Form2554-4, TDP Option Selection Worksheet - Commercial Drawings and Associated Lists, December 1989, used to Commercial Drawings and Associated Lists. Anything else you need follows from that.

Will you need a different form because of where you serve? No. DD forms are Department-wide instruments, and that scope is what separates them from service publications. One edition, all branches, defense agencies included.

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.

How current is this? Edition not stated, publisher status not stated. That is the version described throughout this page.

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.
  • 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. Other tailoring (attach additional sheets as necessary).
  • Press this reset button to clear the data from all fields

Download the form

What can you download? The available set is PDF. How big is the job? The form runs 1 pages with roughly 11 fields to complete.

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.

Is handwriting acceptable? Yes, but it is the weaker choice. Scanning flattens pen strokes and reproduction blurs them, while typed characters survive the whole chain intact. Print in capitals if you are working from a paper blank.

In what order do you complete it? The printed order, top to bottom. Header data comes before the body, and the body before the signature block. The sequence is not decorative — later entries are keyed to earlier ones.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Do you need to know which branch issued a related form? No. DD numbering is Department-wide and unified, which means the number on its own is a complete address for the document.

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.

Is any of this advice? No. This page distributes a published Defense form and explains its contents, which is a different thing from telling you whether your circumstances qualify or whether a reviewer will accept your copy. Direct questions of eligibility, applicability and procedure to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.

Questions and answers

What is DD Form 2554-4?
DD Form2554-4, TDP Option Selection Worksheet - Commercial 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?
PDF

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