You need DD Form 1910, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Clearance Request for Public Release of Department of Defense Information. Its official title is DD Form 1910, Clearance Request for Public Release of Department of Defense Information, April 2016.
Your second step is the edition, not stated, listed as not stated. Your third is scope. Because the number carries a DD prefix, you use the same blank as every other military department and defense agency; no service-specific version exists for you to hunt down.
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.
Last in this stage, choose your method: complete it on screen, or print the blank form and fill it out in pen. The sections below take each route step by step.
Start at the header. Complete your identification before anything else, then work through the main entries, then finish at the certification. Skipping around causes contradictions between the top of the form and the bottom.
Before your first entry, look at the corner of the page and compare the printed date with not stated. If they do not match, stop and download again. Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
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
Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 2 pages and about 39 entries.
Take the pdf if you are unsure. Then check which kind you have: if the boxes highlight when you click them, you have a fillable pdf and can type straight into it, and your entries save with the file. If nothing highlights, you have a printable pdf — send it to a printer and use black ink.
Type when you can. Printed entries stay legible after the form is scanned, copied and forwarded, and handwriting often does not survive that trip. If you must write by hand, use block capitals and press firmly.
What the form asks for
- 1. Document description. a. Type.
- 1.b. Title.
- 1.c. Page Count.
- 1.d. Subject Area.
- 2. Author/speaker. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 2.b. Rank.
- 2.c. Title.
- 2.d. Office.
- 2.e. Agency.
- 3. Presentation/Publication Data (date, place, event).
- 5. Prior Coordination. a. Name (last, first, middle initial), line 1.
- 5.b. Office/agency.
- 5.c. Telephone number (include area code) (or DSN).
- 5.a. Name, line 2.
- 5.b. Office/agency.
- 5.c. Telephone number (include area code) (or DSN).
- 5.a. Name, line 3.
- 5.b. Office/agency.
- 5.c. Telephone number (include area code) (or DSN).
- 5.a. Name, line 4.
- 5.b. Office/agency.
- 5.c. Telephone number (include area code) (or DSN).
- 5.a. Name, line 5.
- 5.b. Office/agency.
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.
If the form points you to another document, you can find it by number alone. DD numbering runs across the whole Department, so you do not need to work out which service issued it — one number, one form, everywhere.
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.
Do not archive this file and reuse it in a year. Forms are reissued as directives are revised, as data requirements shift, and as statutory notice text is amended. Your protection is simple: download fresh each time and confirm the edition date.
Before you go, note what is not covered here. You have the blank form and instructions for completing it; you do not have legal guidance, and no statement on this page determines what any office will do with your submission. Direct those questions to not stated, to the personnel office that serves you, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1910?
- DD Form 1910, Clearance Request for Public Release of Department of Defense Information, April 2016
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?