Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 1697-1. First, know what you are filling: Circuit Parameter Test Data - Digital. The document is titled DD Form 1697-1, Circuit Parameter Test Data - Digital, December 2002.
Then look at the edition date: not stated, publisher status not stated. After that, ask whether the form covers your situation. It almost certainly does regardless of your branch — DD forms run Department-wide rather than through a single service.
Then settle the schedule. You are working under not stated, with not stated responsible for the document, and your organization layers its own deadlines on that. Ask before you assume a date.
Finally, decide how you will complete it. You can type into a fillable file or print a blank and write by hand, and the rest of this page walks you through both paths in order.
Now fill it in. Work from the top of the page downward, and do not jump ahead — the identifying block comes first, the substance of your entry second, the certification last. Later boxes often depend on what you put at the top.
Your first action is verification. Find the edition date on the form and match it against not stated. A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
For questions about a specific entry, check the form's own instructions, and if that does not settle it, open not stated. The directive controls where they differ.
Download the form
Step one is picking the format. You have PDF to choose from, across 2 pages, with approximately 81 fields to complete.
Download the pdf first. After it opens, test a field with your cursor. Fillable means you type, tab to the next box, and save your work inside the file. Printable means the page is a flat blank, so print it and write your answers in ink.
Go with the typed route whenever the choice is yours. Consider what happens after you submit: the copy gets scanned, forwarded and filed, and each pass costs handwriting some legibility. Block letters help if you are stuck with a pen.
What the form asks for
- Test specification: 16. Severely errored seconds (S E S) percent.
- Test results: 16. Severely Errored seconds, local
- Severely Errored seconds, distant end.
- percent s e s, local
- percent s e s, distant end.
- Test specification: 15. Percent error free seconds (E F S)
- Test results: 15. Errored seconds, local
- Errored seconds, distant end.
- percent e f s, local
- percent e f s, distant end.
- Test specification: 14. Bit error rate: 1 times 10
- Test results: 14. Total errors, at local station
- Total errors, at distant end.
- error rate, local
- error rate, distant end
- error rate, local
- error rate, distant end
- Test specification: 17. Percent degraded minutes
- Test results: 17. degraded minutes, local
- Degraded minutes, distant end.
- percent degraded minutes, local
- percent degraded minutes, distant end.
- Test specification: 19. Availability, percent.
- Test results: 19. unavailable seconds, local
With the form finished, route it to the office named in not stated or in your organization's own instruction. Keep a copy first. People rarely regret having one and frequently regret not having one.
When DD Form 1697-1 references another form, search on the series and number. Because DD numbers are common to every military department, the number by itself identifies exactly one document.
Be careful when a procedure pairs this form with a service form. Read the prefix, not just the digits. Service forms answer to a service proponent, while DD forms answer to not stated or an equivalent Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Grabbing the wrong prefix gets you a form that has nothing to do with your task.
Come back and check the edition next time you need this form. Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the information collected changes, or when the required notice language is updated, and none of those events reaches you directly. Verifying not stated at the moment you download is the whole defence.
One thing this page does not do: tell you whether your submission will be accepted. We publish the document and explain how to complete it, and that is where our role ends. Nothing here is legal advice. Take questions about eligibility, applicability or procedure to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1697-1?
- DD Form 1697-1, Circuit Parameter Test Data - Digital, December 2002
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?