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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] 208 points 3 days ago (6 children)

How about extending this to cover your humble civilians too

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

If this passes for the military, then that will mandate the creation of a parts supply chain, as well as documentation and manuals for maintenance and repair, for whatever the military buys. Once that stuff is created, it'll be a lot easier to mandate that the existing stuff be made available to the public, too.

That might not make much of a difference for a guided bomb, but it'll make a huge difference for the huge amount of commercial off the shelf stuff that the military buys: laptops, routers, tablets, phones, civilian vehicles, tools, other basic equipment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I imagine it's a lot easier to expand to civilians later than to get a bill through without the military/government benefitting first.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

When civilians want something, it's always "those poor corporations!"

At least with the bill focused on military you can put forward the importance of "combat readiness", "supporting the troops", "taxpayer dollars", and other things that politicians often say they care about.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Buy military surplus equipment, I guess?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

This is for civilians, we're the ones paying the repair bills.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago