You have arrived looking for DD Form 1498. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Technical Effort and Management System. Full title: DD Form 1498, Technical Effort and Management System, August 1999.
Then look at the edition date: not stated, publisher status not stated. After that, ask whether the form covers your situation. It almost certainly does regardless of your branch — DD forms run Department-wide rather than through a single service.
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.
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.
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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
If a particular field puzzles you, read the instructions printed on the form first, then go to not stated. When the two disagree, follow the directive.
Download the form
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 1 pages, and you will complete roughly 60 fields.
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.
Prefer typing over writing. Your form will likely be scanned and emailed onward, and typed text reproduces at every stage while pen strokes fade or blur. When you do write, print in capitals so the receiving clerk can read it.
What the form asks for
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- 18. a. Professional work years.
- 1. Agency accession.
- 2. Date of summary.
- 3. Date previous summary.
- 4. Kind Of Summary.
- 5. Summary Security.
- 6. Work Security.
- 7. Regrading.
- 8. Disbursing Instructions.
- 9. Level Of Summary. a. Work Unit.
- 10. Number/codes: a. Primary. Program Element.
- 10.a. Primary Project Number.
- 10.a. Primary Task Area Number.
- 10.a. Primary Work Unit Number.
- 10.b. Contributing. Program Element.
- 10.b. Contributing Project Number.
- 10.b. Contributing Task Area Number.
- 10.b. Contributing Work Unit Number.
- 10.c. Contributing. Program Element.
- 10.c. Contributing Project Number.
- 10.c. Contributing Task Area Number.
- 10.c. Contributing Work Unit Number.
- 11. Title (Precede With Security Classification Code).
Submit the completed form through the channel not stated or your local guidance specifies. Save a copy for yourself before it leaves your hands, whether that means a scan, a photograph or a duplicate file.
Should you need a related form, look it up by its number. The DD sequence is Department-wide, which makes your search simple: no service qualifier, no branch-specific variant to track down.
Here is where people go wrong. They see a number in an instruction and download whichever form matches it. But DA and DD are separate systems — Army-specific in one case, Department-wide under not stated in the other — so check which series you were sent to before you take the file.
Do not archive this file and reuse it in a year. Forms are reissued as directives are revised, as data requirements shift, and as statutory notice text is amended. Your protection is simple: download fresh each time and confirm the edition date.
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 1498?
- DD Form 1498, Technical Effort and Management System, August 1999
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?