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Title: US Senator Challenges Defense Industry on Right-to-Repair Opposition

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/11/1917...

Democratic U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is escalating pressure on the
defense industry to stop opposing military right-to-repair legislation, as
House and Senate negotiators work to finalize the fiscal 2026 National
Defense Authorization Act. From a report: In a sharply-worded November 5
letter to the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) obtained by
Reuters, Warren accused the industry group of attempting to undermine
bipartisan efforts to give the Pentagon greater ability to repair weapons and
equipment it owns. She called the group's opposition "a dangerous and
misguided attempt to protect an unacceptable status quo of giant contractor
profiteering." Currently, the government is often required to pay contractors
like NDIA members Lockheed Martin, Boeing and RTX to use expensive original
equipment and installers to service broken parts, versus having trained
military maintainers 3D print spares in the field and install them faster and
more cheaply.

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