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DD Form 2683 — DD Form 2683, Design Criteria Summary Worksheet, February 1994

Design Criteria Summary Worksheet

Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 2683. First, know what you are filling: Design Criteria Summary Worksheet. The document is titled DD Form 2683, Design Criteria Summary Worksheet, February 1994.

Next, check the edition. You want not stated, currently carried as not stated by the publisher. Then confirm the form applies to you — this is a Department of Defense form, so you use it whether you serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force or Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction.

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 Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.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 1 pages and about 200 entries.

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.

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

  • Column a. Enter primary or secondary
  • Column b. Enter asset category
  • Column c. Enter asset value
  • Column a. Design Basis Threat, D B T, Moving vehicle bomb. Enter here.
  • Column a. Level of protection, L O P, Moving vehicle bomb. Enter here.
  • Column b. Design Basis Threat, D B T, Stationary vehicle bomb. Enter here.
  • Column b. Level of protection, L O P, Stationary vehicle bomb. Enter here.
  • Column c. Design Basis Threat, D B T, exterior. Enter here.
  • Column c. Level of protection, L O P, exterior. Enter here.
  • Column d. Design Basis Threat, D B T, stand off weapons. Enter here.
  • Column d. Level of protection, L O P, stand off weapons. Enter here.
  • Column e. Design Basis Threat, D B T, ballistics. Enter here.
  • Column e. Level of protection, L O P, ballistics. Enter here.
  • Column f. Design Basis Threat, D B T, forced entry. Enter here.
  • Column f. Level of protection, L O P, forced entry. Enter here.
  • Column g. Design Basis Threat, D B T, covert entry. Enter here.
  • Column g. Level of protection, L O P, covert entry. Enter here.
  • Column h. Design Basis Threat, D B T, insider compromise. Enter here.
  • Column h. Level of protection, L O P, insider compromise. Enter here.
  • Column i. Design Basis Threat, D B T, visual surveillance. Enter here.
  • Column i. Level of protection, L O P, visual surveillance. Enter here.
  • Column j. Design Basis Threat, D B T, acoustic eavesdropping. Enter here.
  • Column j. Level of protection, L O P, acoustic eavesdropping. Enter here.
  • Column k. Design Basis Threat, D B T, electronic emanations eavesdropping. Enter here.

Now that it is complete, send it where not stated or your local procedure says it goes. Before you do, make yourself a copy — scan it or save the file elsewhere. It costs you nothing and saves you the whole exercise if the original goes missing.

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.

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.

Finally, understand the limits of what you have read. This page distributes a published Department of Defense form and describes how to fill it out. It does not give legal or procedural advice, and it cannot promise any outcome for your particular case. For that, contact not stated, your administrative office, or the authority identified in not stated.

Questions and answers

What is DD Form 2683?
DD Form 2683, Design Criteria Summary Worksheet, February 1994
Which edition is current?
Not stated by the publisher
Who is responsible for this form?
Not stated
In which formats can it be downloaded?
PDF

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