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.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    So finally they’ve figured out that “privatization” is a shitty idea. Not only does it introduce another point of failure in logistics and operations, but the private sector doesn’t mind trying to make every contract on they can retire off of using taxpayer money.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      8 hours ago

      This has nothing to do with privatization, at least not in the sense you seem to mean. It has everything to do with ownership, and the military wants to actually own the products it buys.

      This isn’t going against the private sector as a supplier of goods, it merely says if you sell to the military, the military actually owns that product instead of rents it.