“General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin consider much of the data on the ship to be proprietary, so the Navy had to delay missions and spend millions of dollars on travel costs just so that contractor-affiliated repairmen could fly in, rather than doing this ourselves.”
Section 828 would make defense contractors give the Pentagon fair access to parts, tools and repair information. The letter against it is signed by the Irrigation Association, the Motorcycle Industry Council and John Deere’s dealer group, none of which build warships. They oppose it anyway because a federal repair rule threatens every service contract they sell. The Navy is just the most expensive customer to lock out.