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DA Form 260-1 handles one job: request for publishing - da training, doctrinal, technical and equipment publications. The official title is REQUEST FOR PUBLISHING - DA TRAINING, DOCTRINAL, TECHNICAL, AND EQUIPMENT PUBLICATIONS. Download it below, fill it in, sign it, send it where your directive says. The edition on this page is 06/01/2018, status ACTIVE, running 1 page(s) with about 200 fields to complete.
Two references decide everything about your use of it: CIO maintains the content, AR 25-30 sets the trigger and the routing. Consult the directive when your case is not routine; otherwise the printed blocks tell you enough. The person named in the entries fills it, or the administrative office holding the file does it for them.
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What the form asks for
- ADDL_SPECS
- ADDRESS_A
- ADDRESS_B
- ADDRESS_C
- ADDRESS_D
- ADDRESS_E
- ADDRESS_F
- ADDRESS_G
- ADDRESS_H
- ADDRESS_I
- ADDRESS_J
- ADDRESS_K
- ADDRESS_L
- ADDRESS_M
- ADDRESS_N
- ADDRESS_O
- ADDRESS_P
- ADDRESS_Q
- ADDRESS_R
- ADDRESS_S
- ADDRESS_T
- ADDRESS_U
- ADDRESS_V
- AGENCYA
The heading entries carry more weight than the body. Name spelled as in official records, identification number, organisation, date prepared. Retrieval runs on those values, so a transposed digit or a casual spelling costs someone a file search. Fill them before anything else.
Tab through the fields rather than clicking. The tab order was fixed when the form was built and generally follows the page, which catches boxes a mouse skips past. Check boxes and option buttons take a click, and an exclusive group clears the previous selection when you make a new one. Single-line fields do not wrap — text past the field width prints truncated while still showing in full on screen, which is why the loss is discovered after printing. Overflow goes to remarks or a continuation sheet. A field that does not apply gets the mark meaning none; blank space reads as an omission.
Sign last. An unsigned form is a draft whatever else is on it, and additional signatures — reviewer, approver, witness — follow printed block order with each signer dating the day they sign, not the day of preparation. Four faults account for most returns: a blank mandatory field, transposed digits in an identification number, day and month reversed in a date, and leftover entries in a working copy reused instead of a fresh blank. Read the form once from the top before releasing it.
Privacy Act statement first, personal entries second. The notice covers who is authorised to collect, why, who else routinely sees it, and whether you must answer. After completion the file carries personal data and is stored and sent under the corresponding safeguards.
Send it where the directive says: the office it names, the unit administrative channel, or the individual's file. Take your copy before submission. How long the record is held comes from the schedule for the series, not from the office holding it.
Look for associated forms by series and number. In the DA series, documents sharing a proponent or a governing directive tend to travel together, and anything referenced on the page normally submits alongside. Collect continuations, covers and transmittals in advance of sending.
A stored file goes stale silently. The proponent revises, a new edition date is published, and your copy says nothing about it — so compare the printed date against the edition in force before typing into it again. Completed submissions on an earlier edition are not reopened.
The files are copies of published Department of the Army forms. This site has no official connection, no authority to issue anything, and no basis for saying whether an office will accept a given submission. None of the text is legal advice. Real questions — entry, requirement, eligibility — belong with CIO or the administrative office servicing your unit.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 260-1?
- REQUEST FOR PUBLISHING - DA TRAINING, DOCTRINAL, TECHNICAL, AND EQUIPMENT PUBLICATIONS
- Which edition is current?
- 06/01/2018
- Who is responsible for this form?
- CIO
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, PDF