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DD Form 882 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: DD Form 882, Report of Inventions and Subcontracts, July 2005. Stated purpose: Report of Inventions and Subcontracts. 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.
Submission follows the schedule set by not stated and by local implementing procedures. This page provides the blank form for download and general orientation only.
Available formats: PDF. The form runs 2 pages and contains approximately 65 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.
An xfdl file is provided as well. Xfdl is the IBM Lotus Forms format, historically standard across Defense form distribution, and it requires IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or an equivalent reader; ordinary pdf software will not open it.
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
- 1.a. Name of contractor or subcontractor.
- 1.b. Address: street, city, state, zip code
- 1.c. Contract number.
- 2.a. Name of Government prime contractor.
- 2.b. Address: street, city, state, zip code.
- 2.c. Contract number.
- 2.d. Award Date: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 3. Type of report. Press space bar to mark X in first box if interim, second box if final.
- 4. Reporting Period. a. From: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 4.b. To: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 5. Subject inventions required to be reported by contractor/subcontractor. If none, so state. a. Name of inventor, line 1 of 3.
- 5.b. Title of invention.
- 5.c. Disclosure number, patent application serial number or patent number.
- 5.d. Election to file patent applications. (1) United States. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 5.d. Foreign. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 5.e. Confirmatory instrument or assignment forwarded to contracting officer. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 5.a. Name of inventor, line 2.
- 5.b. Title of invention.
- 5.c. Disclosure number, patent application serial number or patent number.
- 5.d. Election to file patent applications. (1) United States. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 5.d. Foreign. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 5.e. Confirmatory instrument or assignment forwarded to contracting officer. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 5.a. Name of inventor, line 3.
- 5.b. Title of invention.
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.
Guidance for specific entries sits on the form face and in not stated; the directive is authoritative where the two do not agree.
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.
Related documents are located by series and number. DD forms sit in a single Department-wide sequence, so a form referenced inside DD Form 882 is normally found by its number alone, without regard to service.
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.
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.
This page distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. It is not a source of legal advice and makes no representation about acceptance of any completed form. Questions of applicability, eligibility or procedure belong to not stated, the servicing personnel office, or the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 882?
- DD Form 882, Report of Inventions and Subcontracts, July 2005
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?