Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 882. First, know what you are filling: Report of Inventions and Subcontracts. The document is titled DD Form 882, Report of Inventions and Subcontracts, July 2005.
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.
Then settle the schedule. You are working under not stated, with not stated responsible for the document, and your organization layers its own deadlines on that. Ask before you assume a date.
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.
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.
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.
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
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 2 pages, and you will complete roughly 65 fields.
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.
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
- 1.a. Name of contractor or subcontractor.
- 1.b. Address: street, city, state, zip code
- 1.c. Contract number.
- 2.a. Name of Government prime contractor.
- 2.b. Address: street, city, state, zip code.
- 2.c. Contract number.
- 2.d. Award Date: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 3. Type of report. Press space bar to mark X in first box if interim, second box if final.
- 4. Reporting Period. a. From: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 4.b. To: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 5. Subject inventions required to be reported by contractor/subcontractor. If none, so state. a. Name of inventor, line 1 of 3.
- 5.b. Title of invention.
- 5.c. Disclosure number, patent application serial number or patent number.
- 5.d. Election to file patent applications. (1) United States. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 5.d. Foreign. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 5.e. Confirmatory instrument or assignment forwarded to contracting officer. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 5.a. Name of inventor, line 2.
- 5.b. Title of invention.
- 5.c. Disclosure number, patent application serial number or patent number.
- 5.d. Election to file patent applications. (1) United States. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 5.d. Foreign. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 5.e. Confirmatory instrument or assignment forwarded to contracting officer. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 5.a. Name of inventor, line 3.
- 5.b. Title of invention.
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.
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.
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 882?
- DD Form 882, Report of Inventions and Subcontracts, July 2005
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?