Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Guarantee Military Right to Repair Its Equipment
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Boy oh boy really putting through the important shit huh? God damn do I hate our current politicians.
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.
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Exactly. This is completely insane. The DoD has the negotiating leverage to write these right to repair requirements into their RFPs, specifications, and contracts. The idea that their procurement offices simply failed to do this boggles my mind.
Back in the war, if you had a winning design, you were required to license it, full drawings included, to many different manufacturers at fair prices. The Defense Production Act is still on the books, and it contains a lot of power to control the economy. Why is DoD handcuffing themselves?
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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I mean this genuinely is a good concept.
I completely agree, just bitching because there's tons of other legislature that's just as necessary if not moreso, plus the looming shithead wannabe dictator and all his garbage.
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Drop the word "military" and I'm onboard.
I'm on board regardless.
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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.
It's not though. The current administration can suck and also do good things. Both can be true simultaneously.
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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.
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.
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How about extending this to cover your humble civilians too
I imagine it's a lot easier to expand to civilians later than to get a bill through without the military/government benefitting first.
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I think that's just in the US. They also have franchisees elsewhere that still have to pay for the franchise rights. They're for sure not in the restaurant business though, at least not big time. That's risky and costly so the franchisees get to take that risk.
At least in the US, most (all?) stores are still franchises, but the property is owned by McDonalds. Basically, a franchise owner rents the building in much the same way that they rent the ice cream machine. Franchise ownership just means you get the right to run a particular building and make whatever the agreed-upon cut is.
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Service contracts are where the money is at!
Gotta get that recurring revenue!
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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.
This is important.
It's the downstream consequence of decades of outsourcing, kicked off in earnest in the Reagan Administration. "Right to Repair" is just the tip of an enormous iceberg of military privatization.
Money that could be redirected into more important stuff, but alas our corrupt politicians will find other things to waste it on.
That's the nut of it. This money is being wasted in the general sense. But it isn't wasted in the eyes of crony legislators and bureaucrats who see themselves on the receiving end of the kickback stream.
This goes back to the BBB and its rampage through some of the most high efficiency Medicaid programs on offer, in order to shuttle somewhere between $175B and $541B (depending on who is counting) to a national security system that's just legions of badged up bullies harassing locals for the entertainment of a few hooting chuds.
why can’t the military fix their own equipment or farmers fix tractors?
Because
and SaaS is how corporate industry has decided it will continue to grow its profits indefinitely.
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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.
The entire military budget is a massive waste of taxpayers money.
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How about extending this to cover your humble civilians too
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.
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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.
Warren, Sheehy Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Guarantee Military Right to Repair Its Equipment | U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
(www.warren.senate.gov)
perfect example of the tone-deaf left.
corporate democrats will never get it and are just "republican lite".
jackasses.
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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.
Warren, Sheehy Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Guarantee Military Right to Repair Its Equipment | U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
(www.warren.senate.gov)
Liberals will fight for the rights of the military, while the military is being used on domestic soil to actively oppress our rights. Predictable as ever.
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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.
Warren, Sheehy Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Guarantee Military Right to Repair Its Equipment | U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
(www.warren.senate.gov)
That wasn't a thing already? Not a requirement for military orders?
You mean they could ship something into the military without proper documentation and bill it every time maintenance has to be done?
Some things in your land of the free seem to confuse me.
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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.
Look up military pricing too, I remeber seeing something about how the military pays $400 for $4 bag of fuses
That "military pricing" is called "corruption". Despite everyone knowing that it happens in most militaries (or big b2b), it still is that.
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.
I mean, you had a truly magnificent military budget for already 30 years after the nation which was supposed to be the problem solved by it started asking for food aid and falling apart into pieces.
When the funds are provided and it's certain they won't have to be used, the tasks existing expand to fill the budget.
The US military budget is so over the top that even things that it achieves are not so significantly different from what Russian military budget with Russian corruption achieves, yet its size utterly dwarfs that.
If US military budget were used as efficiently as that of, say, Poland, US military would have colonized most of the Solar system already. With actual people as colonists.
That's about that fiscal discipline the Republican party was supposedly in favor of, until it wasn't.
OK, I live in Russia, so shouldn't probably blabber too much about US politics.
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This is important.
It's the downstream consequence of decades of outsourcing, kicked off in earnest in the Reagan Administration. "Right to Repair" is just the tip of an enormous iceberg of military privatization.
Money that could be redirected into more important stuff, but alas our corrupt politicians will find other things to waste it on.
That's the nut of it. This money is being wasted in the general sense. But it isn't wasted in the eyes of crony legislators and bureaucrats who see themselves on the receiving end of the kickback stream.
This goes back to the BBB and its rampage through some of the most high efficiency Medicaid programs on offer, in order to shuttle somewhere between $175B and $541B (depending on who is counting) to a national security system that's just legions of badged up bullies harassing locals for the entertainment of a few hooting chuds.
why can’t the military fix their own equipment or farmers fix tractors?
Because
and SaaS is how corporate industry has decided it will continue to grow its profits indefinitely.
But it isn’t wasted in the eyes of crony legislators and bureaucrats who see themselves on the receiving end of the kickback stream.
Which is also why people active against this will be killed many times before the stream made dry out.
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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.
Just informing you that good old USSR had a similar problem, except not just with the military.
It, of course, had planning inefficiency problems, but the reason some stuff costed and was funded orders of magnitude more than the Western alternatives (sometimes being clones of those alternatives) was just that industries producing this stuff were closer to important interests in internal politics. Soviet production lines were not that much less efficient.
