DD Form 2773 occupies a particular place in Defense recordkeeping. Its title is DD Form 2773, Report of Contractor Services, September 1998, and it exists to Report of Contractor Services. What the DD prefix records is an administrative judgment made long before your copy was printed: this transaction was determined to be common to the whole Department rather than peculiar to one service, and so the documentation of it was standardized at Department level.
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.
Current edition: not stated, status not stated. Understand why that date is worth attention here. When the Department reissues a form, the replacement takes effect across every component simultaneously, so an older copy is not merely locally out of date — it is out of date in every office that might receive it.
The form is laid out top to bottom in a sequence that reflects how the record will be read, not merely how it was drawn. Identification comes first because everything below it is understood in relation to a named person, unit or transaction; substantive entries follow; certification closes the document because certification attests to what precedes it. Filling out of order tends to produce internal inconsistencies — an entry that made sense before the header was settled and does not afterward.
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
What you can download: PDF. The form runs 1 pages and asks for approximately 93 entries. The plurality of formats is deliberate: Defense distribution has never been able to assume one operating environment across the whole force.
Fillable and printable are not two presentations of one file but two different objects. One holds your entries as structured data within the document; the other is a static picture meant to meet a pen. Since a DD form frequently moves outside the organization that created it, the durability of the entry matters more here than on a record that stays in one drawer. Typed text reproduces indefinitely; handwriting degrades at every copy.
What the form asks for
- Section 1. 1. Inspecting activity.
- 2. Contractor name.
- 3. Contract number.
- 4. Order number.
- 5. Shipment inspected. Press space bar to mark X if residence.
- 5. Mark X if contractor's facility.
- 5. Mark X if Other.
- 5. If other, specify.
- 6.a. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 6.b. Time.
- 7.a. Property owner's name (last, first, middle initial).
- 7.b. Rank/Grade.
- 7.c. Social security number.
- 8. Pickup/delivery address (Street, apartment number, City, State, ZIP code).
- Section 2. 9. a. Did the carrier perform a premove survey, if required? 10. Reference: appropriate contract paragraph number, when service is unacceptable.
- 11. Schedules. Schedule I. Enter A for Acceptable, U for Unacceptable, or NA for Not Applicable.
- Schedule III. Enter A, U, or NA.
- 9. b. Did the contractor weigh the shipment in accordance with prescribed procedures? 10. Reference.
- Schedule I. Enter A, U, or NA.
- Schedule III. Enter A, U, or NA.
- 9.c. Was P B P and E properly weighed? 10. Reference.
- Schedule I. Enter A, U, or NA.
- Schedule III. Enter A, U, or NA.
- 9.d. Did the contractor reweigh in accordance with prescribed procedures? 10. Reference.
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.
When DD Form 2773 cites another form, the citation is self-sufficient. The DD series is a single sequence administered at Department level, so the number resolves to exactly one document without any need to establish which component issued it — a convenience that exists only because the sequence was never allowed to fork.
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.
A form is downstream of the policy that requires it, and revision usually starts there: a directive is reissued, a collection requirement is altered, notice language is updated by statute. The form is republished as a consequence. Since none of that reaches individual users, an archived copy quietly becomes wrong, and verifying not stated each time you download is the whole remedy.
The role of this page is narrow and worth stating plainly. It makes a published Defense form available and explains its structure. It does not advise, does not interpret policy for your circumstances, and cannot indicate how any office will treat a completed copy — those judgments rest with the authorities that own the process. Direct such questions to not stated, to the administrative office that services you, or to the authority named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2773?
- DD Form 2773, Report of Contractor Services, September 1998
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?