Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 2292. First, know what you are filling: Request for Appointment or Renewal of Appointment of Expert or Consultant. The document is titled DD Form 2292, Request for Appointment or Renewal of Appointment of Expert or Consultant, September 2011.
Next, check the edition. You want not stated, currently carried as not stated by the publisher. Then confirm the form applies to you — this is a Department of Defense form, so you use it whether you serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force or Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction.
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.
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.
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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
If a particular field puzzles you, read the instructions printed on the form first, then go to not stated. When the two disagree, follow the directive.
Download the form
Step one is picking the format. You have PDF to choose from, across 3 pages, with approximately 30 fields to complete.
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
- Press space bar to mark X in first box if appointment, second box if renewal.
- Request date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day). Date form is completed.
- Part 1 - Requesting Authority. 1. Name of proposed appointee (last, first, middle initial and suffix if applicable).
- 2. Office, committee or subcommittee to which appointed. Spell out completely. Use block 7 if more space is needed.
- 3. Work schedule (full time, part time, intermittent) and stimated number of days to be worked during appointment year. Cannot exceed 130. Must be completed if new appointment.
- 4. Proposed compensation per hour or day or indicate if without compensation (WOC). Must be completed if new appointment.
- 5. Proposed entry on duty date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 6. Complete for renewal appointment of consultant or expert. a. Number days worked in prior appointment year. Attach DD Form 2525.
- 6. b. Work schedule (F/T, P/T, or INT) and number of days to be worked. Cannot exceed 130 days. Must be completed for renewal appointment.
- 6. c. Proposed rate of pay, or WOC.
- 7. Official duty station.
- 8. Position sensitivity. X first box if special sensitive, second if critical sensitive, third if noncritical sensitive, fourth if nonsensitive.
- 9. Duties of consultant or expert.
- 10. Describe nominee's background and experience as it relates to the requirements of this appointment. Attach completed resume.
- 11.i. Signature of authorizing official. Must be USD or designee.
- j. Title of authorizing official.
- 12.a. Security authority signature.
- b. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 13.a. Budget and finance authority signature.
- b. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 14.a. Standards of conduct authority signature.
- b. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 15.a. Human Resources authority signature.
- b. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
With the form finished, route it to the office named in not stated or in your organization's own instruction. Keep a copy first. People rarely regret having one and frequently regret not having one.
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.
Be careful when a procedure pairs this form with a service form. Read the prefix, not just the digits. Service forms answer to a service proponent, while DD forms answer to not stated or an equivalent Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Grabbing the wrong prefix gets you a form that has nothing to do with your task.
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 2292?
- DD Form 2292, Request for Appointment or Renewal of Appointment of Expert or Consultant, September 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?