Consider what a Department-level form is for. DD Form 1144 — DD Form 1144, Support Agreement, November 2001. — was established to Support Agreement, and it was placed in the DD sequence because the underlying transaction occurs throughout the Defense establishment in substantially the same shape. Standardizing the record was cheaper and more reliable than letting six services each design their own.
That decision has consequences you will notice. Because not stated prescribes the form for the Department as a whole, and not stated maintains it on the Department's behalf, the same blank passes between the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marine Corps, the Space Force, the Coast Guard when operating under Defense jurisdiction, the defense agencies and the combatant commands without translation. A clerk in one component reads a record created in another and finds the fields where they expect them.
The edition in force is not stated, carried by the publisher as not stated, and edition discipline is stricter on a Department form than most people expect, precisely because supersession happens everywhere at once. There is no interval during which one service still works from the previous layout while another has moved on.
Work down the page in the printed order, and understand why the order exists. The identifying block establishes whose record this is and under what circumstances it arises. The body of the form then answers questions that are only meaningful once that context is fixed. The signature block comes last because a certification signed before the entries are complete certifies nothing.
Check the edition date before you type anything, against not stated. Old blanks accumulate in shared drives for years, and the cost of one is not obvious until a reviewer cannot find a field. Because DD forms are revised centrally and replaced across the Department in a single action, there is no component still tolerating the old layout as a local practice.
Where a specific field is genuinely unclear, the instructions printed on the form come first and not stated governs where the two do not agree.
Download the form
The set published here is PDF, covering 3 pages with roughly 41 fields.
All of it downloads without charge. Where care is needed is in the reader you choose. A fillable pdf depends on field properties that desktop applications honour and browser previews frequently ignore, so work locally rather than inside a browser window.
What the form asks for
- 7.b. Basis for reimbursement.
- 7.c. Estimated reimbursement.
- 11.b. It is the responsibility of the supplying component to bring any required or requested change in support to the attention of: (enter name here) prior to changing or cancelling support.
- c. The component providing reimbursable support in this agreement will submit statements of costs to: (enter name).
- 11.f. In case of mobilization or other emergency, this agreement will remain in force only within supplier's capabilities. (Enter additional general provisions here.)
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- 13. Additional provisions. Use this space to continue general and/or specific provisions, as needed.
- 1. Agreement Number (provided by supplier).
- 2. Superseded agreement number (if this replaces another agreement).
- 3. Effective date: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers.
- Expiration date (May be Indefinite).
- 5. Supplying activity. a. Name and address.
- 5.b. Supplying activity major command.
- 6. Receiving activity. a. Name and address.
- 6.b. Receiving activity major command.
- 7. Support provided by supplier. a. Support (specify what, when, where, and how much).
- Additional support requirements attached: Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 9. Receiving component. a. Comptroller signature.
- 11.e. This agreement may also be cancelled by either party upon giving at least 180 days written notice to the other party. (Enter any relevant information here.)
- 12. Specific provisions. (As appropriate: e.g., location and size of occupied facilities, unique supplier and receiver responsibilities, conditions, requirements, quality standards, and criteria for measurement or reimbursement of unique requirements).
- Additional specific provisions attached: X first box if yes, second box if no.
- Additional general provisions attached: X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 8.b. Date signed.
- 8.c. Approving authority (1) Typed name.
Route the executed form as not stated or local guidance directs, and retain a duplicate first. Cross-component routing is ordinary for DD forms, which is precisely why a personal copy earns its keep: the receiving office may belong to an organization you have no standing to query about a missing document.
Forms referenced inside this one are located by number alone, and that simplicity is a direct product of Department-level numbering. Because the DD sequence is maintained centrally and not duplicated by service, a number is a complete address: one number, one document, throughout the Defense establishment.
It helps to see the DA and DD sequences as what they are: separate registries with separate custodians. One serves a single service under a service proponent, the other serves the Department under not stated or an equivalent office, and neither was ever indexed against the other. A number that appears in both systems points to two unrelated documents, which is why reading the prefix comes before reading the digits.
Understanding why editions change explains why checking them is not optional. Revision follows directive reissue, changes in what data is required, and amendments to mandatory notice text — decisions made at Department level and communicated through publication rather than notification. The file you saved does not update itself, so the edition date at download is what you rely on.
What you have here is the document and a description of it, which is a different thing from guidance. This page is not an organ of the Department, gives no legal or procedural advice, and makes no representation about the outcome of any filing; the offices that administer the requirement are the only ones positioned to answer that. Applicability, eligibility and procedural questions belong to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1144?
- DD Form 1144, Support Agreement, November 2001.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?