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DD Form 2040 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: DD 2040, DWMSTDP/Standard Time Data Computation Sheet, September 1976. Stated purpose: Time Data Computation Sheet, DWM Stop/Standard. Edition date not stated; status not stated.
Issued under not stated, with not stated as proponent. A DD number marks a Department-wide instrument: the same blank form serves every military department and the defense agencies, rather than one service alone.
Common users: service members regardless of branch, Defense civilian staff, and the offices that file, verify or retain the finished document.
When the form is filed is a matter of not stated and local instruction. The description here covers the document itself and how to obtain a copy.
Available formats: PDF. The form runs 2 pages and contains approximately 200 fillable fields.
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
- b. Element description.
- c. Occupation.
- d. Quality.
- e. Element code.
- f. Unit.
- g. Unit normal time.
- h. Occurrence per cycle.
- i. Total.
- Total time for elements on this page.
- 11. Grand total.
- 12. Hour equivalent.
- 13. Allow factor.
- 14. Allow time.
- 1. Normal time value. Press space bar to mark X if TMU.
- X if hour.
- X if minute.
- 2. Quality code. Technique.
- Quality.
- Function.
- 3. Local ID.
- 4. Analyst.
- 5. Op/element description.
- 6. Code.
- 7. Unit.
The document is filled from the top down. Identification precedes substance, substance precedes certification. Fields lower on the page are commonly keyed to entries made above them.
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 Superseded editions of DD forms are frequently rejected at the receiving office, since Department-wide forms change centrally and older layouts lose their field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.
Instructions printed on the form or in not stated govern individual field entries. Where the two differ, the governing publication controls.
After completion, the copy goes to the office designated by not stated or by local procedure. Retention of a personal copy is ordinary practice and costs nothing.
Associated forms are traced by number within the series. Because the DD sequence is common to all military departments, no service qualifier is needed to identify a referenced form.
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 2040?
- DD 2040, DWMSTDP/Standard Time Data Computation Sheet, September 1976
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?