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Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Guarantee Military Right to Repair Its Equipment (www.warren.senate.gov)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.) introduced the Warrior Right to Repair Act of 2025, legislation that would require contractors to provide the Department of Defense (DoD) with access to technical data and materials the military needs to repair and maintain its own equipment.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (13 children)

Boy oh boy really putting through the important shit huh? God damn do I hate our current politicians.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (10 children)

This is important. Rossman did an interview with a few military techs, and here are few highlights

they couldn't get the router password (that they own) for troubleshooting. Imagine your ISP locked you out of the router?
it cost 200k to ship a 100k part because they weren't allowed to fix the broken one. 300k - thats a decent sized home in some areas, just to replace a wire or something. (Look up military pricing too, I remeber seeing something about how the military pays $400 for $4 bag of fuses)
they have to fly manufacture service techs that don't get schematics, if they need them, an engineer is flown out who closely guards them.

Its a complete waste of taxpayer money. Money that could be redirected into more important stuff, but alas our corrupt politicians will find other things to waste it on.

We're allowed to fix our own cars (although manufactures are trying to stop that), why can't the military fix their own equipment or farmers fix tractors? Get a foothold in the military sector and the rest will follow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Thanks for the type up! I really do appreciate the info, I'm just bitching about the current state of things and how this seems like a distraction compared to the laundry list of other stuff going on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

No problem. I'm not happy with the current state of things either, but crossing one thing off the list, even if its lower priority to us, is still good for someone.

I find it interesting that some of the other comments go on picking apart my thing, that basically boil down to military = bad, so right to repair = bad and its not a problem because they are already wasting money. Be glad something good is moving forward.

Consumer rights have been increasingly stomped on by the mega corporations for years now, and they continuasly push the boundries. The very concept of a terms of service "contract" that can be changed anytime by 1 party (and heavily in their favor) is insane. The more control we get back the better.

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