Socialism for wealthy interests will always prevail

What will happen when the greed of defense companies outweighs the needs of the country for defense? can the defense companies continue overcharging the US government and being drunk on their profits lag behind and lagging behind lobby for the requirements of the US military to be out of date(which is already happening as we see requirements persist that still look like they are from the 1970s in an era where low cost drones, and cheap loitering munitions do not exist, era only way to track a fighter jet is long range radar that distributed camera and ir camera tracking does not exist that fighter jets have true stealth.)and once that lobby works they become over budget and late on delivering on those requirements. This thinking that the defense companies can slumber and we will still be ok is erroneous and will result in us getting humbled in the conflicts to come (having nukes will not make us impervious)

I know this will be an unpopular comment but this totally makes sense to me. As much as I want a right-to-repair for my own consumer goods, forcing all the defense contractors to uptake this all at once especially for top secret systems is highly unlikely to ever happen as it would increase exposure risk of secret leakage via enlisted people working on these systems and would put service members at higher risk of compromise. I think this part of the bill would have to be teased apart and resubmitted.

The only reason to do that is corruption.

One good reason behind this approach is the idea that whoever makes something should be responsible for it’s maintenance- but without extra payment.

It encourages them to make it durable in the first place. If the manufacturer of an aircraft carrier has to support it throughout its whole life, it will be a much better designed ship.