# Plain Language Summary: Warrior Right to Repair Act of 2025

This bill requires defense contractors to give the Department of Defense access to repair parts, tools, and repair information for military equipment. Right now, when the military buys equipment from companies, those companies often keep tight control over how repairs happen. They might be the only ones allowed to fix something, or they charge extremely high prices for parts and repair manuals. This bill says that can't happen anymore—contractors have to provide the military with the same repair materials and information they give to their own authorized repair shops, at comparable prices.

The practical impact is that the military could potentially save money and reduce downtime on equipment. Instead of waiting for a contractor to send someone out to fix a broken radar system, drone, or communications device, military technicians could do repairs themselves using the parts and instructions the contractor must now provide. The bill does include a safety valve: for military programs that started before this law passes, the Defense Department can ask Congress for a waiver if they can prove that sharing repair information would create serious technical or cost problems. However, they have to explain exactly why in writing.

The bill also requires the Secretary of Defense to review existing military contracts and figure out which ones need to be updated to remove intellectual property restrictions that currently prevent the military from accessing repair materials. This is essentially a cleanup effort to fix old contracts that locked the military into contractor-dependent repair arrangements. A government watchdog agency will report back within a year on how well the military is following these new rules.