What is DD Form 2749? It is a Department of Defense form titled DD Form 2749, Technical Assistance for Public Participation (TAPP) Application, October 2003, and its job is straightforward: Technical Assistance for Public Participation (TAPP) Application. 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.
Where does the requirement come from? From not stated, with not stated responsible for the document itself. Those are the names to cite if anyone asks under what authority you filed.
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
- 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).
Download the form
What formats exist for this form? PDF. What is the scale of it? 2 pages and approximately 31 fields.
Why do two kinds of pdf exist? Because two kinds of user exist. One completes the form on screen and forwards a file; the other prints a blank and fills it by hand. The fillable release has interactive boxes, the printable release is a static image of the same page.
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.
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.
What if your copy is old? Replace it. Check the date printed on the form against not stated. Old blanks circulate for years in shared folders, and because a DD revision lands across the whole Department at once, the receiving office will be working from the new layout.
Can you leave fields blank? Not safely. A reviewer cannot tell a deliberate omission from a missed question, so mark inapplicable items N/A. And date fields? Match the format shown on the form — conventions differ, and misreading a date is easy.
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.
What counts as a signature? Ink on a printed copy, or a credentialed digital signature — CAC-based, applied in software that supports it. What does not count? Your name typed into the signature box. That is a name. Then date the block, because an undated certification is a returned form.
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.
What if a specific field still puzzles you? Read the instructions printed on the form, then not stated. Which wins if they differ? The directive.
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 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?