Consider what a Department-level form is for. DD Form 2605 — DD Form 2605, Department of Defense Child Development Program Annual Summary of Operations, December 2002 — was established to Annual Summary of Operations, Department of Defense Child Development Program, 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.
The practical effect of Department-level issue is interoperability. not stated establishes the requirement across the Defense enterprise; not stated keeps the document current for all of it. No service maintains its own variant, which means a completed record travels between components — service to agency, agency to joint command — and arrives in a format the receiving office already knows how to read.
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a form, the replacement takes effect across every component simultaneously, so an older copy is not merely locally out of date — it is out of date in every office that might receive it.
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
Formats available: PDF, across 2 pages and about 93 fields. That several formats coexist is a consequence of scale — the Department cannot standardize the software on every desk that needs this form, so it standardizes the document instead.
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
- 3. TOTAL INSTALLATIONS PROVIDING CARE*. a. Center Based Care Only: 1. Number On installation.
- 3.a.2. Number off-installation subsidized by service.
- 3.a.3. Number both on and off installation.
- 3.b.2. Number off-installation.
- 3.b.3. Number both on and off installation.
- 3.b. Installations providing In-home Care Only: 1. Number On installation.
- 3.c. Number of installations providing Resource and Referral (R&R)/Supplemental Programs only:
- 3.d. Number of installations providing combination of center-based and in-home care.
- 3.e. Number of installations providing Combination of center-based, in-home, and R&R/Supplemental.
- 4. TOTAL FACILITIES*. a. TOTAL NUMBER OF SEPARATE Child Development Centers.
- 4.b. TOTAL NUMBER OF LICENSED IN-Home CARE HOMES located on the installation.
- 4.c. TOTAL NUMBER OF LICENSED IN-Home CARE HOMES located off the installation.
- 5.c. On-installation In-home Care.
- 5.d. Off-Installation In-Home Care
- 5.e. R & R Supplemental Programs.
- 5. Operational Capacity*. Enter numbers: a. On-Installation Child Development Center
- 5.b. Off-Installation Child Development Center subsidized by the Service.
- 6. Operational Capacity by Age Group in Child Development Centers*: a. Infants (0 - 12 months).
- 6.c. Toddlers (25 - 36 months)
- 6.d. Preschool (37 months - 5 years)
- 6.e. School-age (5 - 12 years)
- 6.f. Total
- 6.b. Pretoddlers (13 - 24 months)
- 7. Paid enrollment on date of record*. Enter numbers of: a. Children of Active Duty Military, in Centers.
The completed form goes to the office named in not stated or in local implementing procedure, and it is worth keeping a copy before it goes. On a Department form the destination is frequently outside your own chain — another service, a defense agency, a joint staff — and recovering a document that has crossed an organizational boundary is a slower business than retrieving one from a file down the hall.
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.
Procedures that touch both Department and service processes will cite forms from both sequences, and the coincidence of numbers between them is exactly that — coincidence. An Army proponent maintains the DA series for the Army; not stated or another Department office maintains the DD series for the whole Department. Two independent registries, two independent numbering runs, no correspondence at any value.
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.
A word on what this page is. It distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes what the document contains and how it is completed. It is not the issuing authority, does not speak for one, and offers no legal advice; nothing written here determines whether a particular submission will be accepted, because that determination belongs entirely to the office receiving it. Questions of applicability, eligibility or procedure go to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2605?
- DD Form 2605, Department of Defense Child Development Program Annual Summary of Operations, December 2002
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?