diff --git a/addons/api/addon/models/fragment-target-attributes.js b/addons/api/addon/models/fragment-target-attributes.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1ab994d9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/addons/api/addon/models/fragment-target-attributes.js
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+import Fragment from 'ember-data-model-fragments/fragment';
+import { attr } from '@ember-data/model';
+
+export default class FragmentTargetAttributesModel extends Fragment {
+
+  @attr('number', {
+    description: 'The  default port a target should use if present.'
+  }) default_port;
+
+}
diff --git a/addons/api/addon/models/target.js b/addons/api/addon/models/target.js
index 03a3ad5d7..57b87ff29 100644
--- a/addons/api/addon/models/target.js
+++ b/addons/api/addon/models/target.js
@@ -1,11 +1,17 @@
 import GeneratedTargetModel from '../generated/models/target';
-import { fragmentArray } from 'ember-data-model-fragments/attributes';
+import { fragment, fragmentArray } from 'ember-data-model-fragments/attributes';
 import { computed } from '@ember/object';
 
 export default class TargetModel extends GeneratedTargetModel {
 
   // =attributes
 
+  /**
+   * Attributes of this resource, if any, represented as a JSON fragment.
+   * @type {FragmentTargetAttributesModel}
+   */
+  @fragment('fragment-target-attributes', { defaultValue: {} }) attributes;
+
   /**
    * @type {[FragmentHostSetModel]}
    */
diff --git a/addons/api/app/models/fragment-target-attributes.js b/addons/api/app/models/fragment-target-attributes.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..41eb7d88f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/addons/api/app/models/fragment-target-attributes.js
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+export { default } from 'api/models/fragment-target-attributes';
diff --git a/addons/api/tests/unit/serializers/target-test.js b/addons/api/tests/unit/serializers/target-test.js
index 94cab05e5..e129331eb 100644
--- a/addons/api/tests/unit/serializers/target-test.js
+++ b/addons/api/tests/unit/serializers/target-test.js
@@ -30,7 +30,10 @@ module('Unit | Serializer | target', function(hooks) {
       description: 'Description',
       version: 1,
       type: 'tcp',
-      scope_id: 'org_1'
+      scope_id: 'org_1',
+      attributes: {
+        default_port: null
+      }
     });
 
   });
diff --git a/ui/core/app/components/form/target/index.hbs b/ui/core/app/components/form/target/index.hbs
index a6e5a204e..5a977d2e4 100644
--- a/ui/core/app/components/form/target/index.hbs
+++ b/ui/core/app/components/form/target/index.hbs
@@ -14,11 +14,10 @@
 
   <form.input
     @name="name"
-    @type="name"
+    @type="text"
     @value={{@model.name}}
     @label={{t "form.label.name"}}
     @error={{@model.errors.name}}
-    readonly={{false}}
   as |field|>
     {{#if @model.errors.name}}
       <field.errors as |errors|>
@@ -31,12 +30,10 @@
 
   <form.textarea
     @name="description"
-    @type="description"
+    @type="text"
     @value={{@model.description}}
     @label={{t "form.label.description"}}
     @error={{@model.errors.description}}
-    disabled={{@model.isSaving}}
-    readonly={{false}}
   as |field|>
     {{#if @model.errors.description}}
       <field.errors as |errors|>
@@ -47,6 +44,26 @@
     {{/if}}
   </form.textarea>
 
+  {{!-- TODO this is a type-specific field --}}
+  <form.input
+    @name="default_port"
+    @type="number"
+    @value={{@model.attributes.default_port}}
+    @label={{t "form.label.default_port"}}
+    @error={{@model.errors.default_port}}
+    min="0"
+    step="1"
+  as |field|>
+    {{!-- TODO need to figure out how to reference `attributes.errors` here --}}
+    {{#if @model.errors.default_port}}
+      <field.errors as |errors|>
+        {{#each @model.errors.default_port as |error|}}
+          <errors.message>{{error.message}}</errors.message>
+        {{/each}}
+      </field.errors>
+    {{/if}}
+  </form.input>
+
   <form.actions
     @disabled={{if @model.cannotSave @model.cannotSave}}
     @submitText={{t "actions.save"}}
diff --git a/ui/core/mirage/factories/target.js b/ui/core/mirage/factories/target.js
index a96e15556..fc090fde4 100644
--- a/ui/core/mirage/factories/target.js
+++ b/ui/core/mirage/factories/target.js
@@ -1,11 +1,25 @@
 import factory from '../generated/factories/target';
 import { trait } from 'ember-cli-mirage';
+import { random } from 'faker';
 
 const randomBoolean = (chance = 0.5) => Math.random() < chance;
 const hostSetChance = 0.3;
 
 export default factory.extend({
 
+  /**
+   * Generates attributes fields by type.
+   */
+  afterCreate(target) {
+    if (target.type === 'tcp') {
+      target.update({
+        attributes: {
+          default_port: random.number()
+        }
+      });
+    }
+  },
+
   /**
    * Randomly selects existing host sets to assign to target.
    */
diff --git a/ui/core/translations/en-us.yaml b/ui/core/translations/en-us.yaml
index 394f1e6ec..142c3577f 100644
--- a/ui/core/translations/en-us.yaml
+++ b/ui/core/translations/en-us.yaml
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ form:
     address: Address
     protocol: Protocol
     actions: Actions
+    default_port: Default Port
 errors:
   titles:
     unauthenticated-error: You are not signed in