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Treat DD Form 1653 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 1653, Transportation Data for Solicitations, April 1999. Function: Transportation Data for Solicitations. 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.
not stated is the prescribing publication and not stated the office responsible for the document. Deadlines belong to local implementing guidance, not to either of those, so a submission date is a question for the receiving office.
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: 1 pages, about 109 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
- 8. Evaluation of port bids or proposal (Ports and combined handling and transportation charges per mesasurement ton used by Government for evaluation purposes). a. Destination Country, Line 1.
- 8.b. Origin ports (air or water). Line 1, port 1.
- 8.b. Origin port 2.
- 8.b. Origin port 3.
- 8.b. Origin port 4.
- 8.b. Origin port 5.
- 8.a. Destination Country, Line 2.
- 8.b. Origin ports (air or water). Line 2, port 1.
- 8.b. Origin port 2.
- 8.b. Origin port 3.
- 8.b. Origin port 4.
- 8.b. Origin port 5.
- 8.a. Destination Country, Line 3.
- 8.b. Origin ports (air or water). Line 3, port 1.
- 8.b. Origin port 2.
- 8.b. Origin port 3.
- 8.b. Origin port 4.
- 8.b. Origin port 5.
- 8.a. Destination Country, Line 4.
- 8.b. Origin ports (air or water). Line 4, port 1.
- 8.b. Origin port 2.
- 8.b. Origin port 3.
- 8.b. Origin port 4.
- 8.b. Origin port 5.
Verify the edition before the first keystroke. The date on the form face should read not stated. If it does not, discard the file. Field numbering shifts between editions, and on a DD form the new layout reaches every receiving office in every service at once — there is no lag during which the old version is still normal somewhere.
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.
Do not read across from a service number. DA numbering is Army-specific under an Army proponent; DD numbering is Department-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. The sequences are unrelated, so identical digits in each identify two different documents. Read the prefix, not the digits.
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 1653?
- DD Form 1653, Transportation Data for Solicitations, April 1999
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?