You have arrived looking for DD Form 2799. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Employee Performance Plan and Results Report. Full title: DD Form 2799, Employee Performance Plan and Results Report, December 2015.
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.
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.
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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.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
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 6 pages, and you will complete roughly 73 fields.
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.
Type when you can. Printed entries stay legible after the form is scanned, copied and forwarded, and handwriting often does not survive that trip. If you must write by hand, use block capitals and press firmly.
What the form asks for
- Section 2 - Performance Plan. 7. Critical elements (List at least one but normally not more than five. Develop component specific elements of use elements from attached list with component specific measures). a. First critical element.
- b. Second critical element.
- c. Third critical element.
- d. Fourth critical element.
- e. Fifth critical element.
- Section III. 8. Establishing a performance plan. a. Reviewing Official signature.
- Printed name and title.
- b. Date.
- b. Rating Official Signature.
- Printed name and title.
- Date.
- c. Employee signature.
- Rating Official X if employee refuses to sign.
- Rating Official initials.
- Date.
- Section I - Identifying information. 1. Employee Name (Last, First, Middle Initial).
- 2. Rating period. a. From (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- b. To (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 3. Position title.
- 4. Series.
- 5. Grade.
- 6. Organization/Division.
- Part B. Section 2 - Employee Development Plan. 7. Identify classes, training opportunities, developmental assignments, etc., desirable for improving/enhancing the employee's knowledge, skills, performance, and ability to accomplish the mission.
- Section III. 8. Employee Development Plan. a. Reviewing official signature.
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.
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.
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.
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 2799?
- DD Form 2799, Employee Performance Plan and Results Report, December 2015
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?