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Treat DD Form 1697-1 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 1697-1, Circuit Parameter Test Data - Digital, December 2002. Function: Circuit Parameter Test Data - Digital. 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.
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.
Formats: PDF. Length 2 pages, approximately 81 entries.
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
- Test specification: 16. Severely errored seconds (S E S) percent.
- Test results: 16. Severely Errored seconds, local
- Severely Errored seconds, distant end.
- percent s e s, local
- percent s e s, distant end.
- Test specification: 15. Percent error free seconds (E F S)
- Test results: 15. Errored seconds, local
- Errored seconds, distant end.
- percent e f s, local
- percent e f s, distant end.
- Test specification: 14. Bit error rate: 1 times 10
- Test results: 14. Total errors, at local station
- Total errors, at distant end.
- error rate, local
- error rate, distant end
- error rate, local
- error rate, distant end
- Test specification: 17. Percent degraded minutes
- Test results: 17. degraded minutes, local
- Degraded minutes, distant end.
- percent degraded minutes, local
- percent degraded minutes, distant end.
- Test specification: 19. Availability, percent.
- Test results: 19. unavailable seconds, local
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 Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.
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.
A number is a complete address in the DD series. Because the sequence is Department-level and not duplicated per service, there is nothing further to specify.
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.
Three drivers of revision: directive reissue, altered collection requirements, updated statutory notice text. No notification accompanies any of them, so download fresh and confirm not stated rather than reusing an archived file.
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 1697-1?
- DD Form 1697-1, Circuit Parameter Test Data - Digital, December 2002
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?