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Department of Defense form 2898. Official designation: DD Form 2898, DoD Senior Professional Pay and Performance Appraisal, August 2009. Purpose: Department of Defense Senior Professional Pay and Performance Appraisal. Current edition 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.
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.
Formats offered: PDF. Length: 10 pages. Fillable field count: roughly 67.
The pdf is the primary distribution format. A fillable pdf accepts typed entries in defined field boxes and stores them in the file; a printable pdf is a flat image of the blank, meant for pen entry after printing. The distinction matters for legibility and for records that pass between offices.
What the form asks for
- 2. Position title.
- 3. Organization.
- 4. Pay pool manager.
- 5. Rating period dates (enter as 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no separators). a. Beginning.
- 5.b. Ending date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 6. Performance type. Press space bar to mark X in first box if annual, second box if interim.
- 7. Appointment type. Mark X in first box if ST, second box if SL, or third box if Other. Circle if appropriate.
- 1. Name of senior professional (last, first, middle initial).
- Part B, Section 1 - Performance Elements, Performance Requirements, and preliminary score. a. Performance scores. 1. Leadership/supervision.
- 1. Leadership/supervision: weight.
- 2.b. Performance elements and requirements. Leadership/supervision. Demonstrates effective and ethical individual and organization leadership to assess situations realistically; identifies and recommends or implements needed changes.
- 2. Contribution to mission accomplishment. a. Performance score.
- 2. Contribution to mission accomplishment: weight.
- 2.b. Performance elements and requirements. Contribution to mission accomplishment: Mandatory. Executes the position's assigned duties in a manner that contributes to the successful outcome of strategic goals and objectives.
- 3. Resource Management. a. Performance score.
- 3. Resource management: weight.
- 3.b. Performance elements and requirements. Resource Management: Demonstrates effective use/management of personal and organizational resources such as time, personnel, equipment and/or funds.
- 4. Communication. a. Performance score.
- 4. Communication: weight.
- 4.b. Performance elements and requirements. Communication: Demonstrates effective listening, writing and oral communications skills.
- 5. Cooperation/teamwork. a. Performance score.
- 5. Cooperation/teamwork: weight.
- 5.b. Performance elements and requirements. Cooperation/teamwork: Demonstrates traits of flexibility, adaptability and decisiveness and the ability to exhibit and foster cooperation in team efforts and organizational settings.
- 6. Customer care. a. Performance score.
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.
Edition in use: not stated. Because DD forms are revised at Department level and distributed to all services at once, an obsolete printing may not match the fields an office expects. The date is printed on the form face.
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.
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.
A DD number and a DA number may appear in the same instruction without being related. DA forms belong to the Army alone; DD forms belong to the Department and are administered at Department level. The sequences are independent.
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 2898?
- DD Form 2898, DoD Senior Professional Pay and Performance Appraisal, 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?