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Defense Department form, series DD, number 2906D. Full title: DD Form 2906D, Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Performance Evaluation of Record, October 2011. Function: Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Performance Appraisal. Edition in force: not stated. Publisher 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.
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: 5 pages. Fillable field count: roughly 104.
Every listed format is free to download. Modern pdf software handles the pdf files, with the caveat that browser-embedded viewers sometimes ignore field properties that a desktop reader honours.
What the form asks for
- 3. POSITION TITLE
- 4. PAY SCHEDULE/OCCUPATIONAL SERIES/PAY BAND
- 5. ORGANIZATION
- EMPLOYEE NAME
- APPRAISAL YEAR
- PART C - RELEVANT ORGANIZATIONAL MISSION/STRATEGIC GOALS (Limited to 1400 characters)_Row_1
- Part e: PERFORMANCE ELEMENT
- LAST MODIFIED ON: (YYYYMMDD)
- PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE (Limited to 1,000 characters)_Row_1
- TITLE:
- PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE NO.
- PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE TITLE 2
- PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE TITLE 2
- PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE TITLE 3
- PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE TITLE 4
- PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE TITLE 5
- PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE TITLE 6
- PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE TITLE 7
- PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE TITLE 8
- PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE TITLE 9
- PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE TITLE 10
- PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE RATING (1 – 5 or NR if not rated)_1
- PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE 2 RATING
- PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE 3 RATING
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.
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.
Signature is manual ink on printed copies and digital where the receiving system accepts it. A typed name in a signature field is a name, not a signature. Common Access Card credentials support digital signature in pdf where the form and the reader permit.
Privacy Act Statements accompany DoD forms that gather personal identifiers. Content of the statement: legal authority, principal purpose, routine uses, and the effect of declining to provide the information. It is printed on the form for that reason.
Frequent defects: obsolete edition, unfilled required boxes, handwriting that fails on reproduction, non-conforming date format, and certification without a corresponding date.
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.
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.
Where a DA form is cited alongside a DD form, the two belong to different systems: DA numbering is Army-specific and administered by an Army proponent, while DD numbering is Defense-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. Numbers do not translate between the systems.
Forms are reissued for several reasons: directive revision, changed data requirements, updated notice language. Confirming not stated at the moment of download covers the risk.
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 2906D?
- DD Form 2906D, Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Performance Evaluation of Record, October 2011
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?