Step-by-Step Registration for DoD and US Federal Government Contractors
Submit & Verify Registration
1. Register using the Web-based application: https://www.dtic.mil/.
Terms & Conditions
2. Read and accept the Terms and Conditions.
3. Click the Continue Registration button.
Identification`
4. Enter your work email address.
5. Receive the verification email from RegHelp@dtic.mil. You must respond within 72 hours.
6. Click on the hyperlink in the verification email to continue the registration process.
NOTE: Contact your administrator if the email is not in your inbox. Make sure that emails from RegHelp@dtic.mil are not being blocked. You can also contact DTIC's Registration Team for assistance at (703) 767-8273 DSN 427-8273, or send email to: RegHelp@dtic.mil.
7. Re-enter your work email address and enter the token from the verification email. Your email address must match your previous entry.
8. Click the Validate button.
9. Choose I am a US DOD/Government Contractor:
or Registered with a DoD Potential Contractor Program,
or participating in SBIR,
or affiliated with an institution designated:
- Historically Black College/University (HBCU),
- Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI),
- Native American Tribal College or University (TCU),
- Minority Institution (MI),
- DEPSCoR Institution
- Foreign Government or Foreign Embassy
Registration Application
10. Fill out the registration application.
- Enter your contracting company name on the organization
line. This is the company that pays your salary.
- Enter your work
address.
- Enter valid prime contract number in the Prime Contract
Number field.
- Enter your contract classification.
- Enter
a valid expiration date for the contract.
- Militarily Critical Technical Data Agreement Certification Number and Expiration date. Leave blank unless you would like to have access to export controlled information. If you are not the custodian of the certification, DTIC will require the custodian to send an email to RegHelp@dtic.mil giving you permission to use the certification.
- The Type of Access available is:
- Unclassified, Unlimited (U2) Public Release
- Unclassified, Limited (UL)
- Classified
Classified Access
11. Enter your SIPRNET email address if you want online access to classified information.
NOTE: You cannot have online access to classified information if you do not have access to the SIPRNET and a SIPRNET email address.
12. Enter the classified mailing address of your organization, in the Mail/Shipping Address section, if you want to order classified documents from DTIC.
13. Select the level of access you need: Confidential, Secret, Restricted Data (RD), CNWDI, NATO Unclassified, NATO Confidential, NATO Secret. Your security officer will need to provide brief dates if access to NATO and CNWDI are requested (NATO brief date must be within the last 12 months).
Approving Official
14. Enter government approving official's contact information - name, title, phone number, agency/organization name and email address.
Acceptable government approving official are:
- Primary Contracting Officer (PCO)
- Contracting Officer's Representative (COR)
- Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR)
- Program Manager
- Project ManagerThe following agencies have designated approving officials:
- National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
- US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE)
- National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
- Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
If you are registering a contract from one of these agencies, make sure you use the correct government approving official on the application.
Security Officer
15. Enter security officer's contact information - name, title, phone number and email address.
NOTE: If you are working on a military base, enter the facility security officer's contact information. If you are working at your contracting company's location, enter your company's security officer contact information. Also, DTIC requires all contractors to provide their contracting company's CAGE code, regardless of their location, for facility clearance verification through Defense Security Service (DSS).
NOTE: An email will be sent to the government approving official and security officer (if provided) requesting approval of your request.
16. Click on the submit button. You will receive an email confirming the receipt of your application. This email is not an approval notice.
NOTE: DTIC must receive all requested information in order for you application to be processed.
After successful processing of your application, you will receive a welcome letter via email with your DTIC login ID.



