So what is DD Form 2646? The short answer: a Defense Department document, officially DD Form 2646, Department of Defense School-Age Care (SAC) Program Annual Summary of Operations, December 2002, used to School Age Care Program Annual Summary of Operations, Department of Defense. Anything else you need follows from that.
Will you need a different form because of where you serve? No. DD forms are Department-wide instruments, and that scope is what separates them from service publications. One edition, all branches, defense agencies included.
Who is behind it? not stated maintains the form, and not stated is the publication that requires it. Those two names answer most questions about why you are being asked to submit anything at all.
Which edition should you have? not stated, listed as not stated. A copy dated otherwise is a copy worth replacing.
What the form asks for
- 4.a. Which of the following types of facilities do you use to provide services to school-age children? Press space bar to mark X for all that apply. (1) Off-installation schools.
- 4.a.(2) Mark X if On-installation schools (DoDEA)
- 4.a.(3) Mark X if on-installation schools (other)
- 4.a.(4) Mark X if Child Development Centers
- 4.a.(5) Mark X if youth centers
- 4.a.(6) Mark X if other on-base facilities
- 4.a.(7) Mark X if designated in-home care exclusive for school-age care
- 4.a.(8) Mark X if other type of facility
- Specify other types of facilities
- 5. Operational capacity in all facilities and for exclusive S A C in-home care.* a. During school year.
- 5.b. During summer camps
- 5.c. During school holiday camps
- 5.c. During specialty camps.
- 7. Paid enrollment on date of record.* a. Children of active duty military.
- 6. Number of children enrolled in school-age programs during last fiscal year. a. Before Only programs.
- 6.b. After Only programs
- 6.c. Before and After School programs
- 6.d. Summer programs
- 6.e. Holiday programs
- 7.b. Children of DoD Civilians
- 7.c. Children of reservists on active duty or during inactive duty personnel training
- 7.d. Children of contractors
- 7.f. Children of other categories (specify other categories)
- 7.f. Number of children of other categories of personnel.
Download the form
Which files are here? These: PDF. How much work is involved? 1 pages, about 59 entry fields.
What is the difference between fillable and printable? A fillable pdf has real field boxes that accept typed text and hold it inside the file. A printable pdf is a flat blank with no fields at all, intended for a printer and a pen. Which one you have determines how you complete the form, so it is worth checking first.
Does typing matter? It does. Your completed form will probably be scanned, forwarded and filed, and typed text comes through each of those steps unchanged while handwriting degrades. If pen is your only option, block capitals give the receiving clerk a fighting chance.
Can you skip around the form? Better not to. The layout runs identification, then content, then certification, and entries near the bottom frequently take their meaning from what sits above them.
What if your copy is old? Replace it. Check the date printed on the form against not stated. Old blanks circulate for years in shared folders, and because a DD revision lands across the whole Department at once, the receiving office will be working from the new layout.
Is the form its own instruction manual? Partly. The rest sits in not stated, which is also the authority where the two texts conflict.
What happens after you finish? It routes to the office specified in not stated or in local guidance. And your own record? Save a duplicate first; nobody regrets having one.
How do you find a form referenced inside this one? By its number alone. The DD sequence runs across the entire Department, so a number identifies exactly one document regardless of which service cited it.
Why do some instructions cite both a DA and a DD form? Because the procedure touches both systems, not because the forms are related. Service forms answer to a service proponent; DD forms answer to not stated or another Department office. The sequences were never aligned.
Should you archive this file and reuse it next year? Better not. Forms are revised as directives are reissued, as data requirements shift and as statutory notice text is updated, and none of that reaches you directly. Download fresh, check the edition date.
Will your completed form be accepted? That is not a question this page can answer. What you have here is a published Department of Defense document, a description of it and instructions for filling it out. Nothing on the page is legal advice, and nothing here determines what any office does with a submission. Where do the remaining questions go? To not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2646?
- DD Form 2646, Department of Defense School-Age Care (SAC) 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?