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Treat DD Form 1714 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 1714, Product Verification Record, June 1969. Function: Product Verification Record. 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.
Edition not stated, status not stated. That comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Formats: PDF. Length 2 pages, approximately 200 entries. Pick on the basis of how you will complete it.
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.
What the form asks for
- 1. Contract number.
- 2. Lot number.
- 3. Date of verification.
- 4. Prime contractor (name, city and state).
- 5. Lot size.
- 6. Verification of: Press space bar to mark X in first box if contractor, second box if QCR.
- 7. Plant location (city and state).
- 8. Drawn from: X first box if original lot, second box if resubmitted, or third box if other.
- If other, specify.
- 9. Defects based on: X first box if DHU, second box if percent defective.
- 10. Item description.
- 11. Type of verification.
- 12. Result of verification. X first box if comparable, second box if noncomparable.
- 13. Specification number and date.
- 14. Number of lots verified to date.
- 15. Disposition. X first box if accepted, second box if rejected.
- Sampling plans. X first box if contractor, second box if QCR.
- Sampling plans. 16. Examination, line 1.
- 17. Inspection level.
- 18. AQL.
- 19. Class of defect.
- 20.a. Sample size.
- b. Number of defects.
- 21. Acceptance number.
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 Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.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.
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.
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 1714?
- DD Form 1714, Product Verification Record, June 1969
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?