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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 1685 — DD Form 1685, Data Exchange and/or Proposed Revision of Catalog , August 1993 — exists to Data Exchange and/or Proposed Revision of Catalog Data, 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.
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.
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.
Available: PDF, across 2 pages, roughly 112 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
Default to fillable pdf, print only when you must. The fillable file stores what you type; the printable file is a blank picture. A Department form often travels further than a service form — scanned, emailed, forwarded to an agency that never saw the original — and typed text is what survives that.
Xfdl needs IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible client — a pdf reader will not open it. The format was the Defense standard for electronic forms across the Department for years, which is why it persists in DD distribution long after most users moved to pdf.
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
- Enter M O E rule to be deleted.
- 5.b., line 1 of 6. Mark X if used.
- 5.b., line 1. Enter L to R.
- 5.b., line 1. Enter C A G E code.
- 5.b., line 1. Enter proposed reference numbers.
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- 5.b., line 1. R N C C
- 5.b., line 1. R N V C
- 5.b., line 1. D A C
- 5.b., line 1. R N S C
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- 5.b., line 2. Mark X if used.
- 5.b., line 3. Mark X if used.
- 5.b., line 4. Mark X if used.
- 5.b., line 5. Mark X if used.
- 5.b., line 6. Mark X if used.
- 5.b., line 2. Enter L to R.
- 5.b., line 3. Enter L to R.
- 5.b., line 4. Enter L to R.
- 5.b., line 5. Enter L to R.
- 5.b., line 6. Enter L to R.
- 5.b., line 2. Enter C A G E code.
- 5.b., line 3. Enter C A G E code.
- 5.b., line 4. Enter C A G E code.
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.
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.
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.
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 1685?
- DD Form 1685, Data Exchange and/or Proposed Revision of Catalog , August 1993
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?