Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 2605. First, know what you are filling: Annual Summary of Operations, Department of Defense Child Development Program. The document is titled DD Form 2605, Department of Defense Child Development Program Annual Summary of Operations, December 2002.
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.
Last in this stage, choose your method: complete it on screen, or print the blank form and fill it out in pen. The sections below take each route step by step.
Now fill it in. Work from the top of the page downward, and do not jump ahead — the identifying block comes first, the substance of your entry second, the certification last. Later boxes often depend on what you put at the top.
Before your first entry, look at the corner of the page and compare the printed date with not stated. If they do not match, stop and download again. Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
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 2 pages, with approximately 93 fields to complete.
Take the pdf if you are unsure. Then check which kind you have: if the boxes highlight when you click them, you have a fillable pdf and can type straight into it, and your entries save with the file. If nothing highlights, you have a printable pdf — send it to a printer and use black 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.
Check your software before choosing xfdl. That format belongs to IBM Lotus Forms, long used for Defense form distribution, and it needs the matching viewer. Get the viewer installed, then come back for the file.
You will not be charged for any of these; the whole set is free. Before you start entering data, save the file to your computer and open it there. Fields behave far more reliably in a desktop reader than in a browser preview.
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.
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.
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.
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.
One thing this page does not do: tell you whether your submission will be accepted. We publish the document and explain how to complete it, and that is where our role ends. Nothing here is legal advice. Take questions about eligibility, applicability or procedure to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office named 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?