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Department of Defense form 691. Official designation: DD Form 691, Department of Defense Application for Priority Rating for Production or Construction Equipment, May 2005. Purpose: Application for Priority Rating for Production or Construction Equipment, Department of Defense. 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.
The form reaches military personnel across the services, civilian employees of the Department, and the personnel and records specialists who receive it.
Submission follows the schedule set by not stated and by local implementing procedures. This page provides the blank form for download and general orientation only.
Formats offered: PDF. Length: 4 pages. Fillable field count: roughly 99.
The pdf is the primary distribution format. A fillable pdf accepts typed entries in defined field boxes and stores them in the file; a printable pdf is a flat image of the blank, meant for pen entry after printing. The distinction matters for legibility and for records that pass between offices.
Xfdl is present in the set. The format belongs to IBM Lotus Forms — long the Defense standard for electronic forms — and needs the matching viewer; pdf applications will report the file as unreadable.
All formats download free of charge. Pdf files open in any modern reader; interactive fields behave most predictably in a desktop application, less so in browser viewers.
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.
Completion runs in the order printed on the page: identifying data at the head, the body of the entry next, certification at the foot. Header data frequently governs what belongs in the fields below it.
Verify the edition date against not stated before entry. Department-level revisions replace the blank across every service simultaneously, so an old copy in a desk drawer may no longer correspond to current field numbering.
Guidance for specific entries sits on the form face and in not stated; the directive is authoritative where the two do not agree.
Once executed, routing follows not stated and the submitting organization's own instruction. Keeping a copy is standard.
Associated forms are traced by number within the series. Because the DD sequence is common to all military departments, no service qualifier is needed to identify a referenced form.
Some procedures pair a DD form with a service form. The two numbering systems are separate — service forms answer to a service proponent, DD forms to not stated or another Department office — and a matching number in each system means nothing.
Editions change because the underlying directive changes, because collection requirements are revised, or because Privacy Act language is updated. Checking the edition date at the point of download is the practical response.
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 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?