You have arrived looking for DD Form 2842. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: DoD Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Subscriber Certificate Acceptance and Acknowledgement of Responsibilities. Full title: DD Form 2842, DoD Public Key Infrastructure Certificate of Acceptance and Acknowledgement of Responsibilities - Subscriber, August 2009.
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.
Check the edition before you type a word. The date appears on the face of the form; it should read not stated. When it does not, discard the file and take a fresh copy from this page. Department-level revisions replace the blank across all services simultaneously, which means an old printout can be out of step everywhere.
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 1 pages, with approximately 19 fields to complete.
Download the pdf first. After it opens, test a field with your cursor. Fillable means you type, tab to the next box, and save your work inside the file. Printable means the page is a flat blank, so print it and write your answers in 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.
Handle xfdl in two steps. First confirm you have IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible reader on your machine; ordinary pdf software will report the file as broken. Once the viewer is running, download and fill the form.
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
- 1.c. Unique identification (e.g., EDIPI, UID).
- 1. Certificate accepted by: a. Name, typed or printed. Last name, first name, middle initial.
- 1.d. Organization.
- 1.e. Telephone number. Include area code, no punctuation marks.
- 1.f. E-mail address.
- 1.g. Identification 1. 1. Type (DoD ID, passport, etc.).
- 1.g.2. First identification number.
- 1.h. Identification 2. 1. Type (DoD ID, passport, etc.).
- 1.h.2. Second identification number.
- 1.j. Date signed. Four digit year, three letter month, two digit day.
- 1.i. Subscriber's signature.
- 2. Registration Official per CPS. a. name: last, first, middle initial.
- 2.b. Organization.
- 2.c. Telephone number. Include area code, no punctuation marks.
- 2.d. E-mail address.
- 2.f. Date signed. Four digit year, three letter month, two digit day.
- 2.e. Registration official's 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.
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.
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 2842?
- DD Form 2842, DoD Public Key Infrastructure Certificate of Acceptance and Acknowledgement of Responsibilities - Subscriber, August 2009
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?