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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 691 — DD Form 691, Department of Defense Application for Priority Rating for Production or Construction Equipment, May 2005 — exists to Application for Priority Rating for Production or Construction Equipment, Department of Defense, 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.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
The set is PDF. Size: 4 pages, about 99 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
Fillable pdf is the default choice. Its boxes hold typed entries inside the document; the printable release is a static image of the same page with no interactive layer. Since DD forms routinely cross between services and agencies before they are filed, typed entries matter more here than on a form that stays inside one office.
What the form asks for
- Name and description of equipment, enter S I C code if available. Line 1 of 4.
- Quantity (number of units).
- Purchase price per unit.
- Required delivery date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Number of hours per week to be in operation on rated contracts and orders.
- Priority rating of the rated orders on which you will use the requested equipment items. Press space bar to mark X in first box if DX (highest national priority) or second box if DO (highest defense priority).
- For government use only. Enter quantity (number of units).
- Description of equipment, line 2.
- Quantity.
- Purchase price per unit.
- Required delivery date.
- Number of hours per week to be in operation.
- Mark X in first box if DX (highest national priority) or second box if DO (highest defense priority).
- For government use only. Enter quantity.
- Description of equipment, line 3.
- Quantity.
- Purchase price per unit.
- Required delivery date.
- Number of hours per week to be in operation.
- Mark X in first box if DX (highest national priority) or second box if DO (highest defense priority).
- For government use only. Enter quantity.
- Description of equipment, line 4.
- Quantity.
- Purchase price per unit.
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.
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.
Related forms are found by number alone. The DD sequence is one unified Department-wide series, so a cited number resolves to exactly one document with no branch qualifier needed.
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.
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.
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 691?
- DD Form 691, Department of Defense Application for Priority Rating for Production or Construction Equipment, May 2005
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?