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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 843 — DD Form 843, Requisition for Printing and Binding Service, July 1955 — exists to Requisition For< Printing and Binding Service, 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.
not stated is the prescribing publication and not stated the office responsible for the document. Deadlines belong to local implementing guidance, not to either of those, so a submission date is a question for the receiving office.
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: 1 pages, about 136 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.
Xfdl is a legacy Department format, IBM Lotus Forms, requiring the matching viewer. Its survival in DD distribution reflects how widely it was fielded across the Department, not any advantage over pdf today.
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
- Fund. Press space bar to mark X in first box if appropriated, second box if non-appropriated.
- Date.
- Activity order number.
- Job number, for plant use only.
- From: originating agency, person to contact and telephone extension.
- To.
- Thru: appropriate printing control authority.
- 1. Title of publication.
- 2. Publication number and date.
- 3. Purpose, function, economies effected and concurrences.
- 4. Quantity in: sheets.
- Quantity in: books.
- Quantity in: pads.
- Quantity in: sets.
- Quantity in: other (specify in item 13).
- 4.a. Partial delivery requested: Date.
- Quantity.
- 4.b. Complete delivery requested: Date.
- Quantity.
- 6. Number of pages.
- 5. Size of publication: a. trim size: enter width.
- 5.a. Length of trim size.
- 5.b. Folded to: width.
- 5.b. Length.
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.
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.
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.
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 843?
- DD Form 843, Requisition for Printing and Binding Service, July 1955
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?