Both chambers included Pentagon budget provisions for a right to repair, but they died after defense industry meetings on Capitol Hill.
  • mkwt@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    That’s more or less what happened with the littoral combat ships. It’s like the McDonald’s ice cream machine model of weapons system design.

    The other wild things is that navies traditionally wildly overstaff their ships so they can do all their repairs themselves and fast. But when they switched to this contractor model they didn’t fully unload the staff, so they had a bunch of repair technicians on board who couldn’t do anything.