The final language of the annual bill that funds the us military is in It removes provisions that would have helped ensure service members’ ability to fix their own equipment. The ndaa does not include the right to repair act, requiring contractors to provide technical data for troops to repair equipment in the field. This decision by leadership comes after an intensive lobbying push by defense contractors in recent weeks against the bipartisan right to repair provisions. Congress quietly kills military “right to repair,” allowing corporations to cash in on fixing broken products both chambers included pentagon budget provisions for a right to repair, but they. While the bill also makes various changes, both desirable and undesirable, to the war department’s procurement process, it goes against requests from warfighters in the ranks by removing house and senate approved “right to repair” language, increasing both taxpayer costs and risks to military readiness.
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