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Treat DD Form 1638 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 1638, Report of Disposition of Contractor Inventory, October 1986.. Function: Report of Disposition of Contractor Inventory. Because the number carries DD rather than a service prefix, the same edition covers all military departments and the defense agencies at once. Nobody issues a Navy copy or an Air Force copy.
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.
Current edition is not stated, carried as not stated. Check that against any copy you already hold before doing anything else — Department-level revisions land everywhere simultaneously, so a stale file is stale across the whole Department.
Formats: PDF. Length 1 pages, approximately 149 entries. Pick on the basis of how you will complete it.
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.
Skip xfdl unless the viewer is already installed. It is the IBM Lotus Forms format, adopted Department-wide for electronic forms and still present in the set for that reason; ordinary pdf software reports it as unreadable.
Free download, every format. Do not fill the form in a browser tab — browser pdf viewers handle interactive fields inconsistently and discard entries on close.
What the form asks for
- Section 1, Summary. Enter Industrial Plant Equipment Cases for On Hand Begining of Report Period
- Enter Industrial Plant Equipment Cases for Adjustments
- Enter Industrial Plant Equipment Cases for Receipts
- Enter Industrial Plant Equipment Line Items for On Hand Begining of Report Period
- Enter Industrial Plant Equipment Line Items for Adjustments
- Enter Industrial Plant Equipment Line Items for Receipts
- Enter Industrial Plant Equipment Acquisition Cost for On Hand Begining of Report Period
- Enter Industrial Plant Equipment Acquisition Cost for Adjustments
- Enter Industrial Plant Equipment Acquisition Cost for Receipts
- Enter Other Contractor Inventory Cases For On Hand Begining of Report Period
- Enter Other Contractor Inventory Cases For ADJUSTMENTS
- Enter Other Contractor Inventory Cases For RECEIPTS
- Enter Other Contractor Inventory Line Items For On Hand Begining of Report Period
- Enter Other Contractor Inventory Line Items For ADJUSTMENTS
- Enter Other Contractor Inventory Line Items For RECEIPTS
- Enter Other Contractor Inventory Acquisition Cost For On Hand Begining of Report Period
- Enter Other Contractor Inventory Acquisition Cost For ADJUSTMENTS
- Enter Other Contractor Inventory Acquisition Cost For RECEIPTS
- Enter Total Cases for On Hand Begining of Report Period
- Enter Total Cases for ADJUSTMENTS
- Enter Total Cases for RECEIPTS
- Enter Total Line Items for On Hand Begining of Report Period
- Enter Total Line Items for ADJUSTMENTS
- Enter Total Line Items for RECEIPTS
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.
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.
Where a procedure cites both a service form and a DD form, the two are unconnected. Service numbering answers to a service proponent, DD numbering to not stated or another Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Matching numbers mean nothing whatever.
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 1638?
- DD Form 1638, Report of Disposition of Contractor Inventory, October 1986.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?