Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is plotting a major change to the way the military buys its equipment, blasting contracts that limit soldiers’ ability to fix their own machinery as “sinful.”
He also has some allies in both parties on Capitol Hill who want to advance legislation on what proponents call the “right to repair.”
Driscoll points to the issue as a critical component of his Army Transformation Initiative, and plans to bring it up again with the Senate Armed Services Committee during a hearing on Thursday.