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DD Form 1423 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 1423, Contract Data Requirements List (4 data items), August 1996, used to Contract Data Requirements List. The DD prefix is the operative fact. It means one blank serves every military department — Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction — plus the defense agencies and combatant commands. No branch variant exists.
Authority: not stated prescribes it, not stated maintains it. Those two names settle most disputes about why the form is being asked for. Local commands add timing on top; the requirement itself comes from above them.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
The set is PDF. Size: 2 pages, about 142 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
Fillable pdf is the default choice. Its boxes hold typed entries inside the document; the printable release is a static image of the same page with no interactive layer. Since DD forms routinely cross between services and agencies before they are filed, typed entries matter more here than on a form that stays inside one office.
What the form asks for
- 14. Distribution. a. Addressee, line 1 of 3.
- 14.b. Number of Copies. Draft.
- 14.b. Number of Final copies: regular.
- Number of Final copies: reproducible.
- 14. Distribution. a. Addressee, line 2.
- 14.b. Copies. Draft.
- 14.b. Final copies: regular.
- Final copies: reproducible.
- 14.a. Addressee, line 3.
- 14.b. Copies. Draft.
- 14.b. Final copies: regular.
- Final copies: reproducible.
- 14.b. Number of Copies. Draft.
- 14. Distribution. a. Addressee, line 1 of 3.
- 14. Distribution. a. Addressee, line 2.
- 14.b. Number of Final copies: regular.
- Number of Final copies: reproducible.
- 14.a. Addressee, line 3.
- 14.b. Copies. Draft.
- 14.b. Final copies: regular.
- Final copies: reproducible.
- 14. Distribution. a. Addressee, line 1 of 3.
- 14. Distribution. a. Addressee, line 2.
- 14.a. Addressee, line 3.
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.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
Send it as not stated or local guidance specifies. Save a copy. Cross-service and cross-agency routing is normal for Department forms, and a lost original outside your own organization is harder to chase down.
Look up cross-referenced forms by series and number. DD numbering is unified across the Department, which removes the usual step of identifying which service issued the thing.
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.
Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the data collected changes, or when notice language is amended. None of that reaches you. Checking not stated at download is the entire defence, and it is cheaper than repeating a submission.
What is here is the blank form and a description of it. What is not here is legal guidance or any assurance about a particular filing — this page is not the issuing authority and does not speak for one. Those questions go to not stated, to your servicing administrative office, or to the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1423?
- DD Form 1423, Contract Data Requirements List (4 data items), August 1996
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?