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Department of Defense form 1638. Official designation: DD Form 1638, Report of Disposition of Contractor Inventory, October 1986.. Purpose: Report of Disposition of Contractor Inventory. Current edition 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.
Common users: service members regardless of branch, Defense civilian staff, and the offices that file, verify or retain the finished document.
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.
The download set covers PDF. Document length is 1 pages with about 149 entry fields.
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What the form asks for
- Section 1, Summary. Enter Industrial Plant Equipment Cases for On Hand Begining of Report Period
- Enter Industrial Plant Equipment Cases for Adjustments
- Enter Industrial Plant Equipment Cases for Receipts
- Enter Industrial Plant Equipment Line Items for On Hand Begining of Report Period
- Enter Industrial Plant Equipment Line Items for Adjustments
- Enter Industrial Plant Equipment Line Items for Receipts
- Enter Industrial Plant Equipment Acquisition Cost for On Hand Begining of Report Period
- Enter Industrial Plant Equipment Acquisition Cost for Adjustments
- Enter Industrial Plant Equipment Acquisition Cost for Receipts
- Enter Other Contractor Inventory Cases For On Hand Begining of Report Period
- Enter Other Contractor Inventory Cases For ADJUSTMENTS
- Enter Other Contractor Inventory Cases For RECEIPTS
- Enter Other Contractor Inventory Line Items For On Hand Begining of Report Period
- Enter Other Contractor Inventory Line Items For ADJUSTMENTS
- Enter Other Contractor Inventory Line Items For RECEIPTS
- Enter Other Contractor Inventory Acquisition Cost For On Hand Begining of Report Period
- Enter Other Contractor Inventory Acquisition Cost For ADJUSTMENTS
- Enter Other Contractor Inventory Acquisition Cost For RECEIPTS
- Enter Total Cases for On Hand Begining of Report Period
- Enter Total Cases for ADJUSTMENTS
- Enter Total Cases for RECEIPTS
- Enter Total Line Items for On Hand Begining of Report Period
- Enter Total Line Items for ADJUSTMENTS
- Enter Total Line Items for RECEIPTS
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.
Instructions printed on the form or in not stated govern individual field entries. Where the two differ, the governing publication controls.
After completion, the copy goes to the office designated by not stated or by local procedure. Retention of a personal copy is ordinary practice and costs nothing.
Cross-referenced forms are found through the numbering system. The DD sequence is Department-level and unified, which means a number cited on the page identifies one document across the whole Department.
Where a DA form is cited alongside a DD form, the two belong to different systems: DA numbering is Army-specific and administered by an Army proponent, while DD numbering is Defense-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. Numbers do not translate between the systems.
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 1638?
- DD Form 1638, Report of Disposition of Contractor Inventory, October 1986.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?