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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2477-3 — DD Form 2477-3, Shelf-Life Extension Notice (3"x1"), April 1999 — exists to Shelf-Life Extension Notice (3" X 1"), 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.
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.
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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Available: PDF, across 1 pages, roughly 142 fields.
Nothing costs anything here. Work in a full desktop pdf application rather than a browser preview; field behaviour in browsers is unreliable.
What the form asks for
- Label 1 of 20. National stock number.
- Contract number.
- Lot or batch number.
- Date tested.
- Next inspection or test date.
- Authority (QSL, MQCSS, or other).
- Inspected by: activity and inspector's name or number.
- Label 2. National stock number.
- Contract number.
- Lot or batch number.
- Date tested.
- Next inspection or test date.
- Authority (QSL, MQCSS, or other).
- Inspected by: activity and inspector's name or number.
- Label 3. National stock number.
- Contract number.
- Lot or batch number.
- Date tested.
- Next inspection or test date.
- Authority (QSL, MQCSS, or other).
- Inspected by: activity and inspector's name or number.
- Label 4. National stock number.
- Contract number.
- Lot or batch number.
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.
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.
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 2477-3?
- DD Form 2477-3, Shelf-Life Extension Notice (3"x1"), 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?