What is DD Form 2554-8? It is a Department of Defense form titled DD Form 2554-8, TDP Option Selection Worksheet, Program Peculiar Specifications, December 1989, and its job is straightforward: Program Peculiar Specifications. 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.
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. Item, process or material.
- 2. Specification type per mil-std-490. Press space bar to mark X in one block only of type A, B (1)-(5), C(1)(a) - (4), D, or E
- 3. Form. X first box if form 1a, second box if form 1b, third box if form 2, or fourth box if form 3.
- 4. Associated documents per mil-std-490. a. Document. (1) X if specification change notice.
- (2) X if engineering change proposals.
- (3) X if specification revision pages.
- b. CDRL data item number.
- (4) X if changes to general specification for ships of the U.S. Navy.
- b. CDRL data item number.
- b. CDRL data item number.
- (5) X if software top level design document.
- b. CDRL data item number.
- (6) X if software detailed design document.
- b. CDRL data item number.
- (7) X if interface design document.
- b. CDRL data item number.
- (8) X if database design document.
- b. CDRL data item number.
- b. CDRL data item number.
- 5. Deliverable product. a. X if Originals (masters).
Download the form
What can you download? The available set is PDF. How big is the job? The form runs 1 pages with roughly 31 fields to complete.
What does any of this cost? Nothing. Every format listed is a free download. One practical note: save the file and open it in a desktop pdf reader, because browser previews often ignore interactive fields and lose what you typed.
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.
Where do you look up an unclear entry? The form face first, not stated second. And when the two disagree? not stated controls.
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.
What if DD Form 2554-8 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.
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.
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 2554-8?
- DD Form 2554-8, TDP Option Selection Worksheet, Program Peculiar Specifications, 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?