You need DD Form 2602, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Department of Defense Critical Acquisition Position - Rotation Review Summary. Its official title is DD Form 2602, Department of Defense Critical Acquisition Position - Rotation Review Summary, July 1998.
Your second step is the edition, not stated, listed as not stated. Your third is scope. Because the number carries a DD prefix, you use the same blank as every other military department and defense agency; no service-specific version exists for you to hunt down.
After that, turn to timing. The requirement comes from not stated; the form is maintained by not stated. Local implementing instructions fill in the dates, so check with the office that will receive your copy.
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.
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 Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.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
Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 1 pages and about 29 entries.
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.
Prefer typing over writing. Your form will likely be scanned and emailed onward, and typed text reproduces at every stage while pen strokes fade or blur. When you do write, print in capitals so the receiving clerk can read it.
Check your software before choosing xfdl. That format belongs to IBM Lotus Forms, long used for Defense form distribution, and it needs the matching viewer. Get the viewer installed, then come back for the file.
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
- Component/organization.
- 1. To (Acquisition Career Program Board (ACPB)).
- 2. Via (Reviewing Official).
- 3. From (Organization and Address).
- Position Data. 4. Position number.
- 5. Job title.
- 6. Grade/rank.
- 7. Organization/location.
- 8. Military reserved position? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- Incumbent identification and personal data. 9. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 10. Grade/rank.
- 11. Social security number (or other identification number).
- 12. Acquisition career field.
- 13. Date of assignment to current position (4 digit year, 2 digit month).
- 14. Date of review (4 digit year, 2 digit month).
- 15. Disposition. X first box if the incumbent should remain in the present position, second box if should be reassigned to another position.
- 16. Date of next review (4 digit year, 2 digit month).
- If reassignment recommended: 17. Planned new position. a. Job title.
- 17.b. Grade/rank.
- 17.c. Organization.
- 18. Requesting official. a. Typed name.
- 18.b. Grade/rank.
- 18.c. Organization.
- d. Signature.
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.
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.
Come back and check the edition next time you need this form. Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the information collected changes, or when the required notice language is updated, and none of those events reaches you directly. Verifying not stated at the moment you download is the whole defence.
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 2602?
- DD Form 2602, Department of Defense Critical Acquisition Position - Rotation Review Summary, July 1998
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?