You have arrived looking for DD Form 2543. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Government Furnished Material (GFM) Status Report. Full title: DD Form 2543, Government Furnished Material (GFM) Status Report, September 1999.
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.
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.
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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.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
Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 1 pages and about 104 entries.
Take the pdf if you are unsure. Then check which kind you have: if the boxes highlight when you click them, you have a fillable pdf and can type straight into it, and your entries save with the file. If nothing highlights, you have a printable pdf — send it to a printer and use black ink.
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.
Before you take the xfdl file, make sure you can open it. Install IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or an equivalent client first, because your pdf reader will refuse the file. Then download and complete it as normal.
You will not be charged for any of these; the whole set is free. Before you start entering data, save the file to your computer and open it there. Fields behave far more reliably in a desktop reader than in a browser preview.
What the form asks for
- Report control symbol
- 1. Date prepared (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 2. Reporting period. a. From (4 digit year, 1 digit quarter).
- b. To. (4 digit year, 1 digit quarter).
- 3 3. Management control activity (MCA).
- 4. Contract number/contract basic line item number, line 2.
- 5. Consignee.
- 6. NSN/Part number.
- 7. Document number (MILSTRIP requisition number).
- 8. Unit of issue.
- 9. Quantity shipped.
- 10. Date shipped.
- 11. Unit price.
- 12. Extended dollar value.
- Part I - Shipments of GFM to contractors. 4. Contract number/contract basic line item number, line 1.
- 5. Consignee.
- 6. NSN/Part number.
- 7. Document number (MILSTRIP requisition number).
- 8. Unit of issue.
- 9. Quantity shipped.
- 10. Date shipped (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 11. Unit price.
- 12. Extended dollar value.
- 4. Contract number/contract basic line item number, line 3.
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.
When DD Form 2543 references another form, search on the series and number. Because DD numbers are common to every military department, the number by itself identifies exactly one document.
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.
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 2543?
- DD Form 2543, Government Furnished Material (GFM) Status Report, September 1999
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?