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 Congress quietly kills military “right to repair,” allowing corporations to cash in on fixing broken products both chambers included pentagon budget provisions for a right to repair, but they. 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 This decision by leadership comes after an intensive lobbying push by defense contractors in recent weeks against the bipartisan right to repair provisions. 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.
It removes provisions that would have helped ensure service members’ ability to fix their own equipment.
