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DD Form 1597 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: DD Form 1597, Contract Closeout Check-List, April 2000. Stated purpose: Contract Closeout Check-List. Edition date not stated; status not stated.
Prescribing authority: not stated. Proponent: not stated. Unlike service-specific publications, DD forms carry Department-level authority and apply across the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force and Coast Guard when operating under Defense jurisdiction.
Users include uniformed members of any branch, DoD civilian employees, contractor personnel where authorized, and the administrative staff who process the completed record.
Timing of submission is fixed by not stated and by the implementing guidance of the submitting organization. What follows describes the blank document, not agency procedure.
Available formats: PDF. The form runs 1 pages and contains approximately 123 fillable fields.
Distribution centres on pdf. Two states exist: fillable, where field boxes accept keyboard input and retain it, and printable, a static blank produced for manual completion. Typed data reproduces cleanly across copies; handwritten data depends on the writer.
What the form asks for
- 1. Contract Number.
- 2. Contract modification numbers (if applicable).
- 3. Name of contractor.
- 4. Date of physical completion (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 5. Action items. a. Disposition of classified material completed. 6. Milestones/calendar months after physical completion. Category 2.
- Category 3.
- Category 4.
- 7. Forecast completion date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 8. Date action completed: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, or NA if not applicable.
- 5.b. Final patent report submitted (Inventions/disclosures) (DD Form 882). 6. Milestones/calendar months after physical completion. Category 2.
- Category 3.
- Category 4.
- 7. Forecast completion date.
- 8. Date action completed (or NA if not applicable).
- 5.c. Final royalty report submitted. 6. Milestones/calendar months after physical completion. Category 2.
- Category 3.
- Category 4.
- 7. Forecast completion date.
- 8. Date action completed (or NA if not applicable).
- 5.d. Final patent report cleared (Inventions/disclosures). 6. Milestones/calendar months after physical completion. Category 2.
- Category 3.
- Category 4.
- 7. Forecast completion date.
- 8. Date action completed (or NA if not applicable).
The document is filled from the top down. Identification precedes substance, substance precedes certification. Fields lower on the page are commonly keyed to entries made above them.
The current edition is not stated. Superseded editions of DD forms are frequently rejected at the receiving office, since Department-wide forms change centrally and older layouts lose their field correspondence. Edition date appears in the lower corner of the printed blank.
Field-level instructions appear on the form itself and in not stated. The directive is the controlling text.
The completed document moves to the office named in not stated or in local guidance. A retained copy is conventional practice.
Related documents are located by series and number. DD forms sit in a single Department-wide sequence, so a form referenced inside DD Form 1597 is normally found by its number alone, without regard to service.
A DD number and a DA number may appear in the same instruction without being related. DA forms belong to the Army alone; DD forms belong to the Department and are administered at Department level. The sequences are independent.
Forms are reissued for several reasons: directive revision, changed data requirements, updated notice language. Confirming not stated at the moment of download covers the risk.
The material here is descriptive. Nothing on the page constitutes legal or procedural advice, and no statement here determines whether a submitted form will be accepted. Such questions go to not stated, a servicing administrative office, or the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1597?
- DD Form 1597, Contract Closeout Check-List, April 2000
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?