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DD Form 2024 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: DD Form 2024, DoD Security Classification Guide Data Elements, July 1986. Stated purpose: DoD Security Classification Guide Data Elements. Edition date not stated; status not stated.
Governing directive: not stated. Responsible office: not stated. The DD designation signals joint scope — all military departments, combatant commands and defense agencies draw on a single edition of the document.
Users include uniformed members of any branch, DoD civilian employees, contractor personnel where authorized, and the administrative staff who process the completed record.
Submission follows the schedule set by not stated and by local implementing procedures. This page provides the blank form for download and general orientation only.
Available formats: PDF. The form runs 2 pages and contains approximately 25 fillable fields.
Pdf serves as the base format. In the fillable variant, each box is an interactive field that holds typed text inside the document. In the flat printable variant, no fields exist — the page prints as a blank to be completed by hand. Typed entries survive transmission; handwriting does not always survive scanning.
Free download applies to every format listed. Any current pdf reader opens the pdf files, though field behaviour is most reliable in a full desktop reader rather than a browser preview.
What the form asks for
- 1. Reason for submission. Press space bar to mark X in first box if new guide, second box if revision, third box if reissuance, fourth box if biennial review, fifth box if cancellation, or sixth box if correction.
- Report Control Symbol.
- 2. Promulgating document. (Include type of document, activity, symbol or serial number and date. Do not include the subject of the document. If no promulgating document, state "none." Do not exceed 46 characters.).
- 3. Classification Guide Title. (Include the full title (if unclassified) and any short title. Do not exceed 134 characters.)
- 4. Classification guide date (2 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day. Do not exceed 6 characters).
- 5. Classification guide originator. (Activity which issued guide. Do not exceed 25 characters.)
- 6. Available through DTIC. X first box if B, second box if C, third box if D, fourth box if E, fifth box if F, sixth box if X, or seventh box if No.
- 7. Biennial review date (2 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day. Do not exceed 6 characters.)
- 8. Number of revisions and date of latest. (Show number of revisions first, then the date of latest revision as a 2 digit year followed by 2 digit month and 2 digit day. If no revisions have been made, so state. A reissued guide would have no revisions. Do not exceed 8 characters.)
- 9.a. Subject Matter Index Terms, line 1 (do not exceed 34 characters per line).
- 9.b. Subject Matter Index Terms.
- 9.c. Subject Matter Index Terms.
- 10. Classification of guide document. X first box if Top secret, second box if secret, third box if confidential, fourth box if unclassified, or fifth box if special access required (including if guide itself is classified).
- 11. Index source number. Enter existing number if guide is listed in Index.
- 12. Highest classification prescribed by guide: X first box if top secret, second box if secret, or third box if confidential.
- 13. The guide prescribes classification of information controlled within a Special Access Program. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 14. Remarks.
- 15. Originator. a. Typed name (last, first, middle initial).
- 15.b. Title.
- 15.e. Date signed.
- 15.c. Office/agency department.
- 15.d. Signature.
- 16. Action Officer. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 16.b. Telephone number (DSN if outside DC metropolitan area).
Completion runs in the order printed on the page: identifying data at the head, the body of the entry next, certification at the foot. Header data frequently governs what belongs in the fields below it.
The current edition is not stated. Superseded editions of DD forms are frequently rejected at the receiving office, since Department-wide forms change centrally and older layouts lose their field correspondence. Edition date appears in the lower corner of the printed blank.
Guidance for specific entries sits on the form face and in not stated; the directive is authoritative where the two do not agree.
The completed document moves to the office named in not stated or in local guidance. A retained copy is conventional practice.
Cross-referenced forms are found through the numbering system. The DD sequence is Department-level and unified, which means a number cited on the page identifies one document across the whole Department.
Some procedures pair a DD form with a service form. The two numbering systems are separate — service forms answer to a service proponent, DD forms to not stated or another Department office — and a matching number in each system means nothing.
Revision occurs when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the data collected changes, or when statutory notice language is amended. Verification of the edition date at download addresses all three.
The material here is descriptive. Nothing on the page constitutes legal or procedural advice, and no statement here determines whether a submitted form will be accepted. Such questions go to not stated, a servicing administrative office, or the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2024?
- DD Form 2024, DoD Security Classification Guide Data Elements, July 1986
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?