You need DD Form 2086-2, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Freedom of Information (FOI) Consultation and Request Summary. Its official title is DD Form 2086-2, FOI Consultation and Request Summary, July 08.
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.
Last in this stage, choose your method: complete it on screen, or print the blank form and fill it out in pen. The sections below take each route step by step.
Now fill it in. Work from the top of the page downward, and do not jump ahead — the identifying block comes first, the substance of your entry second, the certification last. Later boxes often depend on what you put at the top.
Your first action is verification. Find the edition date on the form and match it against not stated. A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
Look up an unclear item on the form face before anywhere else, then in not stated. Should the two texts conflict, the directive is the one you follow.
Download the form
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 4 pages, and you will complete roughly 96 fields.
Whichever you pick, you pay nothing — every format here is a free download. One last tip: open your pdf in a desktop reader rather than in a browser tab, because browser viewers sometimes drop the interactive fields you need.
What the form asks for
- 2. Type of action. Press space bar to mark X in first box if request, second box if appeal, third box if consultation.
- 3. Request category. X first box if commercial, second box if news media, third box if scientific/educational, or fourth box if other.
- 4. Action office.
- 5. Open date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 6. Close date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 7. Multi-track processing. X first box if simple, second box if complex, third box if request granted expedited processing.
- 8. Expedited processing and fee waiver adjudication. X first box if granted expedited processing, second box if denied.
- Days required to adjudicate expedited processing request.Number of calendar days required to adjudicate expedited processing request.
- X first box if granted fee waiver, second box if denied.
- Number of working days required to adjudicate fee waiver request.
- 9. Response time in day increments. X first box if 1-20 days, second box if 21-40 days, third box if 41-60 days, fourth box if 61-80 days, fifth box if 81-100 days, sixth box if 101-120 days, seventh box if 121-140 days, eighth box if 141-160 days, ninth box if 161-180 days, tenth box if 181-200 days, eleventh box if 201-300 days, twelfth box if 301-400 days, or thirteenth box if 401 or more days.
- 10. Actions taken. a. Disposition. X first box if full grant, second box if partial grant/denial, or third box if full denial based on exemption(s).
- b. Full denial based on reasons other than exemptions. X if no records.
- X if records referred.
- X if request withdrawn.
- X if fee related reason.
- X if records not reasonably described.
- X if improper request for other reasons.
- X if not agency records.
- X if duplicate request or appeal.
- X if request in litigation.
- X if other.
- X if appeal based solely on denial of request for expedited processing.
- If other, explain.
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.
Should you need a related form, look it up by its number. The DD sequence is Department-wide, which makes your search simple: no service qualifier, no branch-specific variant to track down.
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.
Do not archive this file and reuse it in a year. Forms are reissued as directives are revised, as data requirements shift, and as statutory notice text is amended. Your protection is simple: download fresh each time and confirm the edition date.
Finally, understand the limits of what you have read. This page distributes a published Department of Defense form and describes how to fill it out. It does not give legal or procedural advice, and it cannot promise any outcome for your particular case. For that, contact not stated, your administrative office, or the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2086-2?
- DD Form 2086-2, FOI Consultation and Request Summary, July 08
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?