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Defense Department form, series DD, number 2842. Full title: DD Form 2842, DoD Public Key Infrastructure Certificate of Acceptance and Acknowledgement of Responsibilities - Subscriber, August 2009. Function: DoD Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Subscriber Certificate Acceptance and Acknowledgement of Responsibilities. Edition in force: not stated. Publisher status: not stated.
Prescribing authority: not stated. Proponent: not stated. Unlike service-specific publications, DD forms carry Department-level authority and apply across the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force and Coast Guard when operating under Defense jurisdiction.
The form reaches military personnel across the services, civilian employees of the Department, and the personnel and records specialists who receive it.
Timing of submission is fixed by not stated and by the implementing guidance of the submitting organization. What follows describes the blank document, not agency procedure.
The download set covers PDF. Document length is 1 pages with about 19 entry fields.
All formats download free of charge. Pdf files open in any modern reader; interactive fields behave most predictably in a desktop application, less so in browser viewers.
What the form asks for
- 1.c. Unique identification (e.g., EDIPI, UID).
- 1. Certificate accepted by: a. Name, typed or printed. Last name, first name, middle initial.
- 1.d. Organization.
- 1.e. Telephone number. Include area code, no punctuation marks.
- 1.f. E-mail address.
- 1.g. Identification 1. 1. Type (DoD ID, passport, etc.).
- 1.g.2. First identification number.
- 1.h. Identification 2. 1. Type (DoD ID, passport, etc.).
- 1.h.2. Second identification number.
- 1.j. Date signed. Four digit year, three letter month, two digit day.
- 1.i. Subscriber's signature.
- 2. Registration Official per CPS. a. name: last, first, middle initial.
- 2.b. Organization.
- 2.c. Telephone number. Include area code, no punctuation marks.
- 2.d. E-mail address.
- 2.f. Date signed. Four digit year, three letter month, two digit day.
- 2.e. Registration official's signature.
Order of completion: identification block first, substantive entries second, certification and signature last. The blank is laid out in that sequence and the sequence is not arbitrary — later entries often depend on data established in the header.
Verify the edition date against not stated before entry. Department-level revisions replace the blank across every service simultaneously, so an old copy in a desk drawer may no longer correspond to current field numbering.
Field-level instructions appear on the form itself and in not stated. The directive is the controlling text.
The completed document moves to the office named in not stated or in local guidance. A retained copy is conventional practice.
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 2842?
- DD Form 2842, DoD Public Key Infrastructure Certificate of Acceptance and Acknowledgement of Responsibilities - Subscriber, August 2009
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?