You have arrived looking for DD Form 1540. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Scientific and Technical Information Services, Registration for. Full title: DD Form 1540, Registration for Scientific and Technical Information Services, November 2007.
Then look at the edition date: not stated, publisher status not stated. After that, ask whether the form covers your situation. It almost certainly does regardless of your branch — DD forms run Department-wide rather than through a single service.
Once you know the form fits, find out when you file it. not stated sets the requirement, and not stated maintains the form itself. Your own command or agency adds local timing on top of that, so ask your administrative office if the deadline matters to you.
Before you download, pick your approach — editable file or printed page. What follows covers the formats first, then the entries, then what you do afterward.
Begin at the top and move down. Enter your identifying data first, then the body of the form, then the signature block. The sequence is printed in that order because entries below frequently follow from entries above.
Before your first entry, look at the corner of the page and compare the printed date with not stated. If they do not match, stop and download again. Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
For questions about a specific entry, check the form's own instructions, and if that does not settle it, open not stated. The directive controls where they differ.
Download the form
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 2 pages, and you will complete roughly 65 fields.
Handle xfdl in two steps. First confirm you have IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible reader on your machine; ordinary pdf software will report the file as broken. Once the viewer is running, download and fill the form.
All of it downloads free. When you are ready to work, do this: save the file locally, then open it in a full pdf application. Browsers often ignore field properties, and you can lose everything you typed.
What the form asks for
- Section 1 - General Information. (All applicants must complete Section 1.) 1. Organization name.
- 2. Suborganization name.
- 3.a. Classified or Business mailing address.
- 4. Attention. a. Name: last, first, middle initial.
- 4.c. Position/title.
- 4.d. Office symbol.
- 6. Fax numbers (include area code). a. Commercial.
- 6.b. D S N.
- 7. E-mail address.
- 8.a. Prime contract number (or other appropriate number) (contractors only).
- 9. Current or former DTIC user? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- If yes, enter DTIC user code.
- 10. Militarily Critical Technical Data Agreement Certification Number (contractors only).
- 8.b. Expiration date - four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 11. CAGE code.
- 12. DUNS number.
- 13. Type of access requested. a. Unclassified. X first box if Unclassified/Unlimited (public release) or second box if Unclassified/Limited (controlled distribution).
- b. Classified: X first box if confidential, second box if secret.
- c. Special accesses: X if Restricted Data.
- X if CNWDI.
- 10.b. Expiration date - four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- X if NATO confidential.
- X if NATO unclassified.
- X if NATO secret.
Now that it is complete, send it where not stated or your local procedure says it goes. Before you do, make yourself a copy — scan it or save the file elsewhere. It costs you nothing and saves you the whole exercise if the original goes missing.
If the form points you to another document, you can find it by number alone. DD numbering runs across the whole Department, so you do not need to work out which service issued it — one number, one form, everywhere.
Watch out for one trap here. If your instructions cite a DA form as well, do not assume the numbers are connected. DA numbering belongs to the Army alone; DD numbering belongs to the Department and is administered by not stated or another Department office. The same number in each system means two unrelated forms, so read the prefix before you download.
Plan to repeat this step whenever the form comes up again. Revisions follow directive changes, changes in what data is collected, and updates to notice language. Since nobody notifies you, check not stated at download and you have covered it.
One thing this page does not do: tell you whether your submission will be accepted. We publish the document and explain how to complete it, and that is where our role ends. Nothing here is legal advice. Take questions about eligibility, applicability or procedure to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1540?
- DD Form 1540, Registration for Scientific and Technical Information Services, November 2007
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?