You have arrived looking for DD Form 691. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Application for Priority Rating for Production or Construction Equipment, Department of Defense. Full title: DD Form 691, Department of Defense Application for Priority Rating for Production or Construction Equipment, May 2005.
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.
After that, turn to timing. The requirement comes from not stated; the form is maintained by not stated. Local implementing instructions fill in the dates, so check with the office that will receive your copy.
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.
Begin at the top and move down. Enter your identifying data first, then the body of the form, then the signature block. The sequence is printed in that order because entries below frequently follow from entries above.
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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.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 4 pages, with approximately 99 fields to complete.
Whichever you pick, you pay nothing — every format here is a free download. One last tip: open your pdf in a desktop reader rather than in a browser tab, because browser viewers sometimes drop the interactive fields you need.
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.
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.
Watch out for one trap here. If your instructions cite a DA form as well, do not assume the numbers are connected. DA numbering belongs to the Army alone; DD numbering belongs to the Department and is administered by not stated or another Department office. The same number in each system means two unrelated forms, so read the prefix before you download.
Plan to repeat this step whenever the form comes up again. Revisions follow directive changes, changes in what data is collected, and updates to notice language. Since nobody notifies you, check not stated at download and you have covered it.
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 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?