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Department of Defense form 879. Official designation: DD Form 879, Statement of Compliance, April 1998. Purpose: Statement of Compliance. Current edition 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.
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.
Available formats: PDF. The form runs 2 pages and contains approximately 31 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.
What the form asks for
- Name of signatory party.
- Title.
- Contractor or subcontractor.
- Building or work.
- Day commencing.
- Month commencing.
- Year commencing.
- Day ending.
- Month ending.
- Year ending.
- Contractor or subcontractor.
- Permissible deductions (line 1).
- Permissible deductions (line 2).
- Permissible deductions (line 3).
- (a) Press space bar to mark X if fringe benefits are paid to approved plans, funds or programs.
- (b) Mark X if fringe benefits are paid in cash.
- (c) Exception (Craft), line 1.
- (c) Explanation, line 1.
- (c) Exception, line 2.
- (c) Explanation, line 2.
- (c) Exception, line 3.
- (c) Explanation, line 3.
- 5. Remarks.
- 1. Payroll number.
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.
Guidance for specific entries sits on the form face and in not stated; the directive is authoritative where the two do not agree.
Once executed, routing follows not stated and the submitting organization's own instruction. Keeping a copy is standard.
Related documents are located by series and number. DD forms sit in a single Department-wide sequence, so a form referenced inside DD Form 879 is normally found by its number alone, without regard to service.
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.
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.
Scope of this page: distribution of a published form and description of its contents. It offers no legal guidance and no assurance regarding any particular submission. Direct procedural questions to not stated, to the servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 879?
- DD Form 879, Statement of Compliance, April 1998
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?