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Treat DD Form 1848 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 1848, Sensitive Compartmented Information Debriefing Memorandum, January 1983. Function: Sensitive Compartmented Information Debriefing Memorandum. Because the number carries DD rather than a service prefix, the same edition covers all military departments and the defense agencies at once. Nobody issues a Navy copy or an Air Force copy.
not stated is the prescribing publication and not stated the office responsible for the document. Deadlines belong to local implementing guidance, not to either of those, so a submission date is a question for the receiving office.
Edition not stated, status not stated. That comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Available: PDF, across 1 pages, roughly 15 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
Default to fillable pdf, print only when you must. The fillable file stores what you type; the printable file is a blank picture. A Department form often travels further than a service form — scanned, emailed, forwarded to an agency that never saw the original — and typed text is what survives that.
Xfdl is a legacy Department format, IBM Lotus Forms, requiring the matching viewer. Its survival in DD distribution reflects how widely it was fielded across the Department, not any advantage over pdf today.
Free download, every format. Do not fill the form in a browser tab — browser pdf viewers handle interactive fields inconsistently and discard entries on close.
What the form asks for
- I was reminded of the need for special protection of S C I material, of the fact that access to this material is governed by the terms of the S C I Nondisclosure Agreement that I previously signed, and of my continuing obligation to comply with the terms of that agreement. Enter signature here.
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- This memorandum records the fact that I was debriefed on this date on the following Sensitive Compartmented Information, S C I, Special Access Programs, use unclassified indicators only: Line 1 of 3
- Line 2 of 3
- Line 3 of 3
- Rank/grade.
- Social security number.
- Date of debriefing (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Billet number.
- Organization.
- I certify that the debriefing presented by me was in accordance with relevant S C I procedures. Enter signature of authorized briefer.
- Printed/typed name (last, first, middle initial).
- Date of debriefing (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Organization.
- Printed/typed name (last, first, middle initial).
Verify the edition before the first keystroke. The date on the form face should read not stated. If it does not, discard the file. Field numbering shifts between editions, and on a DD form the new layout reaches every receiving office in every service at once — there is no lag during which the old version is still normal somewhere.
For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
Send it as not stated or local guidance specifies. Save a copy. Cross-service and cross-agency routing is normal for Department forms, and a lost original outside your own organization is harder to chase down.
A number is a complete address in the DD series. Because the sequence is Department-level and not duplicated per service, there is nothing further to specify.
Do not read across from a service number. DA numbering is Army-specific under an Army proponent; DD numbering is Department-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. The sequences are unrelated, so identical digits in each identify two different documents. Read the prefix, not the digits.
Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the data collected changes, or when notice language is amended. None of that reaches you. Checking not stated at download is the entire defence, and it is cheaper than repeating a submission.
What is here is the blank form and a description of it. What is not here is legal guidance or any assurance about a particular filing — this page is not the issuing authority and does not speak for one. Those questions go to not stated, to your servicing administrative office, or to the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1848?
- DD Form 1848, Sensitive Compartmented Information Debriefing Memorandum, January 1983
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?