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Right-to-repair debate surfaces as lawmakers press DOD on sustainment and intellectual property
Summary
Committee members and DOD officials discussed right-to-repair provisions, balancing sustainment needs and private-sector intellectual property protections; DOD pledged to work with the committee on targeted assessments.
Committee members repeatedly raised the sustainment challenge known as the "valley of death" and pressed for clearer DOD access to technical data needed to repair and sustain fielded systems. Representative Don Young (transcript: members asked generally) and others focused on the difficulty of balancing operational readiness with privately funded intellectual property; Representative Neal (questions in transcript) and several members urged targeted approaches rather than an all-or-nothing demand for data.
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