Congress has released the final version of the 2026 national defense authorization act (ndaa), and critics have been quick to point out that previously proposed rules giving the us military the right to repair its equipment without having to rely on contractors have gone missing. The ndaa does not include the right to repair act, requiring contractors to provide technical data for troops to repair equipment in the field. If anything, the pentagon should include the interest costs on the national debt for its own budget requests To more thoroughly investigate problematic projects like this, congress should enhance the ability of its watchdogs (like the government accountability office) to study wasteful spending at the department of war. 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.
This decision by leadership comes after an intensive lobbying push by defense contractors in recent weeks against the bipartisan right to repair provisions.
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