You have arrived looking for DD Form 2051. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Request for Assignment of a Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Code. Full title: DD Form 2051, Request for Assignment of a Commercial and Government Entity Code, October 2011.
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.
Finally, decide how you will complete it. You can type into a fillable file or print a blank and write by hand, and the rest of this page walks you through both paths in order.
Start at the header. Complete your identification before anything else, then work through the main entries, then finish at the certification. Skipping around causes contradictions between the top of the form and the bottom.
Check the edition before you type a word. The date appears on the face of the form; it should read not stated. When it does not, discard the file and take a fresh copy from this page. Department-level revisions replace the blank across all services simultaneously, which means an old printout can be out of step everywhere.
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
Step one is picking the format. You have PDF to choose from, across 2 pages, with approximately 34 fields to complete.
Choose pdf as your default. Next, click inside a box. A fillable pdf responds by outlining the field and letting you type; the text stays in the document when you save it. A printable pdf does not respond, which tells you to print the page and complete it by hand.
Go with the typed route whenever the choice is yours. Consider what happens after you submit: the copy gets scanned, forwarded and filed, and each pass costs handwriting some legibility. Block letters help if you are stuck with a pen.
What the form asks for
- Section A - to be completed by initiator. 1. Requesting government agency/activity. a. Name.
- 1.b. Street address.
- 1.b. City.
- 1.b. State.
- 1.b. Zip code.
- 2. Type code requested. Press space bar to mark first box if type A, second box if type F.
- 3. Exception codes. a. C A O.
- 3.b. A D P.
- 4. Initiator. a. Typed name: last, first, middle initial.
- 4b. Office symbol.
- 4.c. Signature.
- 4.d. Telephone number (include area code).
- Section B - to be completed by firm to be coded. 5. Firm. a. Name (include branch of, division of, etc.)
- 5.b. Street address.
- 5.b. City.
- 5.b. State.
- 5.b. Zip code.
- 5.c. CAGE code (if previously assigned).
- 6. If firm previously operated under other name(s) or other address(es) specify the previous name(s) and/or address(es). Use separate sheet of paper if necessary.
- 7. Parent company and affiliated firms. Mark X in first box if none, second box if currently affiliated with other firms, and third box if previously affiliated with other firms. List names and addresses of such firms on a separate sheet of paper.
- 8. Primary business category. Mark X in first box if manufacturer, second box if dealer/distributor, third box if construction firm, fourth box if service company, fifth box if sales office, and sixth box if other.
- 8.f. If other, specify.
- 9. Small disadvantaged business status. Mark X in first box if approved by Small Business Administration for Section 8a program, second box if other small disadvantaged business concern, third box if not small disadvantaged business concern.
- 10. Number of employees.
Submit the completed form through the channel not stated or your local guidance specifies. Save a copy for yourself before it leaves your hands, whether that means a scan, a photograph or a duplicate file.
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.
Here is where people go wrong. They see a number in an instruction and download whichever form matches it. But DA and DD are separate systems — Army-specific in one case, Department-wide under not stated in the other — so check which series you were sent to before you take the file.
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.
Before you go, note what is not covered here. You have the blank form and instructions for completing it; you do not have legal guidance, and no statement on this page determines what any office will do with your submission. Direct those questions to not stated, to the personnel office that serves you, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2051?
- DD Form 2051, Request for Assignment of a Commercial and Government Entity Code, 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?