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DD Form 2683 — DD Form 2683, Design Criteria Summary Worksheet, February 1994

Design Criteria Summary Worksheet

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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2683 — DD Form 2683, Design Criteria Summary Worksheet, February 1994 — exists to Design Criteria Summary Worksheet, 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.

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.

The set is PDF. Size: 1 pages, about 200 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

  • Column a. Enter primary or secondary
  • Column b. Enter asset category
  • Column c. Enter asset value
  • Column a. Design Basis Threat, D B T, Moving vehicle bomb. Enter here.
  • Column a. Level of protection, L O P, Moving vehicle bomb. Enter here.
  • Column b. Design Basis Threat, D B T, Stationary vehicle bomb. Enter here.
  • Column b. Level of protection, L O P, Stationary vehicle bomb. Enter here.
  • Column c. Design Basis Threat, D B T, exterior. Enter here.
  • Column c. Level of protection, L O P, exterior. Enter here.
  • Column d. Design Basis Threat, D B T, stand off weapons. Enter here.
  • Column d. Level of protection, L O P, stand off weapons. Enter here.
  • Column e. Design Basis Threat, D B T, ballistics. Enter here.
  • Column e. Level of protection, L O P, ballistics. Enter here.
  • Column f. Design Basis Threat, D B T, forced entry. Enter here.
  • Column f. Level of protection, L O P, forced entry. Enter here.
  • Column g. Design Basis Threat, D B T, covert entry. Enter here.
  • Column g. Level of protection, L O P, covert entry. Enter here.
  • Column h. Design Basis Threat, D B T, insider compromise. Enter here.
  • Column h. Level of protection, L O P, insider compromise. Enter here.
  • Column i. Design Basis Threat, D B T, visual surveillance. Enter here.
  • Column i. Level of protection, L O P, visual surveillance. Enter here.
  • Column j. Design Basis Threat, D B T, acoustic eavesdropping. Enter here.
  • Column j. Level of protection, L O P, acoustic eavesdropping. Enter here.
  • Column k. Design Basis Threat, D B T, electronic emanations eavesdropping. Enter here.

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.

For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.

Submit to the office named in not stated or in local instruction; retain a duplicate before it leaves. Joint routing often sends a DD form across organizational boundaries, and tracing one afterward is not a same-day matter.

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.

Prefix before number. A DA citation and a DD citation in the same instruction point at separate systems — one Army, administered by an Army proponent, one Department-wide under not stated — and there is no correspondence between them at any number.

Revision follows directive changes, changed data requirements and amended notice language, unannounced. Verify not stated each time rather than trusting a saved copy — the cost of the check is seconds.

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 2683?
DD Form 2683, Design Criteria Summary Worksheet, February 1994
Which edition is current?
Not stated by the publisher
Who is responsible for this form?
Not stated
In which formats can it be downloaded?
PDF

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