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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 1637 — DD Form 1637, Notice of Acceptance of Inventory Schedules, June 2003 — exists to Notice of Acceptance of Inventory Schedules, 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.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
Available: PDF, across 1 pages, roughly 34 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
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.
Xfdl is a legacy Department format, IBM Lotus Forms, requiring the matching viewer. Its survival in DD distribution reflects how widely it was fielded across the Department, not any advantage over pdf today.
All formats are free. One operational note: save the file locally and open it in a desktop reader. Browser-embedded viewers drop field properties and lose typed data without warning.
What the form asks for
- 1. Plant clearance case number. All future documents concerning this case must bear this plant clearance case number.
- 2. To: Include Zip Code.
- 3. From: include zip code.
- 4. Procurement Instrument Identification Number.
- 5. Subcontract or purchase order number.
- 6. Change order number.
- 7. Termination Docket Number.
- 8. Contractor's Reference Number.
- 9. Type of contract: Press space bar to mark X if a. Fixed price.
- 9.b. Mark X if Cost type.
- 9.c. Mark X if Facility.
- 9.d. Mark X if Lease.
- 9.e. Mark X if Bailment.
- 9.f. Mark X if Storage.
- 10. Type of Inventory. a. Mark X if Termination.
- 10.b. Mark X if Residual to Contract.
- 10.c. Mark X if Change Order.
- 10.d. Mark X if Excess GFP.
- 10.e. Mark X if Production Equipment.
- 11. Cost of inventory schedules: a. Standard Form 1426, Schedule A.
- 11.b. Standard Form 1428 (Schedule B).
- 11.c. Standard Form 1430 (Schedule C).
- 11.d. Standard Form 1432 (Schedule D).
- 11.e. DD Form 1342.
Edition check comes first, ahead of any entry. Compare the printed date to not stated and replace anything older. Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
Submit to the office named in not stated or in local instruction; retain a duplicate before it leaves. Joint routing often sends a DD form across organizational boundaries, and tracing one afterward is not a same-day matter.
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.
Revision follows directive changes, changed data requirements and amended notice language, unannounced. Verify not stated each time rather than trusting a saved copy — the cost of the check is seconds.
Limits of this page: it distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. No legal advice, no procedural ruling, no statement about whether any submission will be accepted. Applicability, eligibility and procedure belong to not stated, to a servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1637?
- DD Form 1637, Notice of Acceptance of Inventory Schedules, June 2003
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?