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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 1277 — DD Form 1277, Catalog Action Request, April 1975 — exists to Cataloging Action Request, and it applies across the services rather than inside one. That is what the DD prefix encodes: joint issue, single edition, every branch and defense agency working from identical paper.
Requirement traces to not stated; the form belongs to not stated. Everything about schedule sits below that in local instruction, which is where to ask if a date matters.
Edition not stated, status not stated. That comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
The set is PDF. Size: 1 pages, about 90 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
Take the fillable pdf unless you have a reason not to. Fillable means the boxes are real fields that accept typed text and retain it in the file. Printable means a flat blank — no fields, printer and pen only. The difference is not cosmetic: one produces a record that reproduces cleanly through scanning and forwarding, the other depends on penmanship.
What the form asks for
- Section A - Initiating activity. 1. From.
- 2. Activity control number. a. Military service.
- 2.b. DPSC.
- 3. Item description.
- 4. Action requested.
- National Stock Number (n s n), line 2.
- Phrase code.
- Referenced/phrase related.
- 5. National Stock Number (n s n), line 1.
- Phrase code.
- Referenced/phrase related.
- National Stock Number (n s n), line 3.
- Referenced/phrase related.
- Phrase code.
- National Stock Number (n s n), line 4.
- Phrase code.
- Referenced/phrase related.
- National Stock Number (n s n), line 5.
- Phrase code.
- Referenced/phrase related.
- National Stock Number (n s n), line 6.
- Phrase code.
- Referenced/phrase related.
- National Stock Number (n s n), line 7.
Start by matching the printed date to not stated. Old blanks accumulate in shared folders for years. Because the Department reissues to all services in one action, nobody is still accepting the previous layout by local custom.
Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.
Route it where not stated or local procedure directs, and keep a copy first. On a Department form the receiving office is frequently outside your own chain — another service, a defense agency, a joint command — which makes recovering a lost original slower than it would be internally.
Related forms are found by number alone. The DD sequence is one unified Department-wide series, so a cited number resolves to exactly one document with no branch qualifier needed.
Prefix before number. A DA citation and a DD citation in the same instruction point at separate systems — one Army, administered by an Army proponent, one Department-wide under not stated — and there is no correspondence between them at any number.
Three drivers of revision: directive reissue, altered collection requirements, updated statutory notice text. No notification accompanies any of them, so download fresh and confirm not stated rather than reusing an archived file.
This page publishes a Defense document and explains its contents. It does not advise, does not rule on applicability, and determines nothing about how a completed form will be treated. Direct such questions to not stated, to the servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1277?
- DD Form 1277, Catalog Action Request, April 1975
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?